The increase in yam prices, according to vendors in Sunyani’s Nana Bosoma Market, is due to this year’s erratic rainfall and the high cost of cultivation supplies.
The yam vendors claim that an insufficient supply of yams on the market is another factor driving up pricing.
Presently, 100 yam tubers are offered for sale at farm gates throughout the Bono Region for between GHC6,000 and GHC7,500.
When comparing the price of yam at Sunyani’s Nana Bosoma Market to the same period in 2023, it is now higher.
Depending on their size, three yam tubers cost GHC50, while others might cost up to GHC100.
Sellers of yams at Sunyani’s Nana Bosoma Market have refuted claims that they had inflated the product’s price on purpose.
Nonetheless, they blame the increase on the rising cost of farming inputs and the erratic rainfall patterns observed in the Bono Region.
“There would have been an abundance of yam if it had rained. It is because of the poor rains that is why we do not have enough yam. I believe in the coming months we will have yam in abundance. As I speak it is only the Fiaso community that we can get yam from,” Rebecca Ataa Yeboah, a yam seller.
Another yam seller Akosua Yeboah, stated, “We are not responsible for the high price of yam. The farmers are facing high costs due to expensive farming inputs, which is driving up the price. We only add a small margin for profit.”
