Business News of Friday, 20 August 2021Source: classfmonline.comThe prices of foodstuffs will start falling in September, Dr Kodjo Esseim Mensah-Abrampa, Director-General of National Development Planning Commission (NDPC) has said. “It is not only in Ghana that the prices of foodstuffs have shot up because the price of everything that is shipped has gone up”, he explained. “Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, there is general hardship but even Ghana is lucky because some countries don’t have food to eat at all”, Dr Mensah-Abrampa noted. “It’s an environmental hazard and difficulty that need to be looked at”, Dr Mensah-Abrampa added. “So bad rains, the international situation and the pandemic conspired to cause the prices of foodstuffs to rise but we believe the prices will start falling within September because things are now normalizing”, the NDPC boss said.

Source: GhanaWeb August 20, 2021 12:00 UTC