Onion wholesale and retail traders in Sunyani say they are incurring huge losses because of rising cost, resulting from the inability of haulage trucks to convey vegetable from Niger through Burkina Faso to Ghana. According to the traders the situation had been caused by the Niger military takeover, the closure of the borders and the inability of the dealers to bring the commodity into the country.
Consequently, both traders and consumers of the vegetable have appealed to the government to collaborate with ECOWAS to allow the free movement of goods and services. In that sense, they hoped the haulage trucks loaded with onion could be brought into the country to prevent the continuous astronomical price of the vegetable in the nation’s various markets.
Source: myjoyonline.com