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Ms Joyce Vihoho, Queen of Ho’s Central Market, has said that market sales were “disappointing” as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
He said that the COVID-19 outbreak and its ramifications on trade had affected businesses, thus reducing people’s purchasing power.
Madam Vihoho told the Ghana News Agency this in an interview at Ho Central Market.
He expressed the hope that the following year would come with greater prospects for trade to make up for losses in 2020.
Onion seller Ms Eunice Dzigbede told the Ghana News Agency (GNA) that school closures due to the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic had made it difficult for commodity traders to make the usual sales, especially of cooks in the various educational centers. institutions in particular and the public in general.
She said the price of onions has risen to GHC50 from GHC25Cedis for small buckets this year.
Innocent Zekortia, a tomato seller, said they were making good sales because they have reduced the price of tomato from GHC40 per collection of small cubes to GHC25.
He revealed that although the market had witnessed an increase in traders this year, which led to the availability of basic products in the market, ranging from food and clothing, among others, people were not buying.
“You are witnessing a drowned market full of human trafficking, but they are just window shopping and not buying,” he said.
Ms Hellen Agbeleke, a resident, revealed that there were enough food products on the market, yet their prices seem exorbitant.
Source: GNA / Ethel Nkansah / Ivy Yemoteley Anum
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