{"id":26559,"date":"2025-07-26T23:31:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T23:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/26559\/"},"modified":"2025-07-26T23:31:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T23:31:11","slug":"the-real-prices-of-goods-on-the-market-following-cedis-appreciation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/26559\/","title":{"rendered":"The real prices of goods on the market following cedi&#8217;s appreciation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/business\/The-real-prices-of-goods-on-the-market-following-cedi-s-appreciation-GhanaWeb-Research-1993401?gallery=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/42879082.295.jpg\" alt=\"These are the prices mentioned by the Minister of Finance\" title=\"These are the prices mentioned by the Minister of Finance\" width=\"295\" height=\"295\" \/> <\/a>These are the prices mentioned by the Minister of Finance<\/p>\n<p id=\"article-123\">Following the cedi&#8217;s appreciation in the last six months, the prices of goods and services have responded positively.<\/p>\n<p>During the presentation of the 2025 Mid-Year Budget Review, the Minister of Finance, Dr <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/people\/person.php?ID=2581\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Cassiel Ato Forson<\/a>, stated that the appreciation of the local currency over the past six months has influenced the real prices of goods on the market.<\/p>\n<p>According to the minister, prices of goods have reduced on the market.<\/p>\n<p>He listed the following price changes:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 A 25kg bag of Royal Aroma rice, which sold for GH\u00a2650 in January, is now selling for GH\u00a2356.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 An olonka of sugar has dropped from GH\u00a250 in January to GH\u00a244.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 A 25-litre container of cooking oil has reduced from GH\u00a2980 to GH\u00a2640.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 A sack of kokonte has decreased from GH\u00a21,200 to GH\u00a2950.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 A tonne of iron rods, previously GH\u00a29,400, is now selling at GH\u00a27,500.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 A paint bucket of onions has gone down from GH\u00a2120 to GH\u00a295.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 POP cement, which sold at GH\u00a2115 in January, now sells for GH\u00a290.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 A sack of maize has dropped from GH\u00a21,600 to GH\u00a21,450.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The price of Yazz sanitary pads has reduced from GH\u00a225 in January to GH\u00a215.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 An olonka of palm fruits, which used to sell for GH\u00a240, is now being sold for GH\u00a225.<\/p>\n<p>To corroborate this, GhanaWeb Business conducted a research at some local stores that showed that indeed, prices of some items have reduced.<\/p>\n<p>1.  The price of Yazz sanitary pads, which used to sell between GH\u00a218 and GH\u00a220, is currently selling between GH\u00a218 and GH\u00a215.<\/p>\n<p>2. An olonka of sugar, which used to sell between GH\u00a250 and GH\u00a255, is currently selling between GH\u00a244 and GH\u00a238.<\/p>\n<p>3. A sack of kokonte has decreased from GH\u00a21,100 to GH\u00a2900.<\/p>\n<p>4. A small paint bucket of onions is currently selling between GH\u00a260 and GH\u00a270.<\/p>\n<p>5. A sack of maize is currently selling at GH\u00a21,400 from GH\u00a21,600.<\/p>\n<p>6. A 25-litre container of cooking oil has reduced from GH\u00a2900 to GH\u00a2650.<\/p>\n<p>Other things like kokonte, iron rods, and cement prices have reduced as well.<\/p>\n<p>SSD\/AE<\/p>\n<p>Watch the latest episode of BizTech below:<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"These are the prices mentioned by the Minister of Finance Following the cedi&#8217;s appreciation in the last six&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26560,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[45,49,48,46],"class_list":["post-26559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}