With the onset of the festive period comes hikes in the prices of food stuff especially the essential Christmas goodies.

A visit to most markets across the Greater Accra Region show that majority of Christmas dinner essentials and other food stuff including poultry, rice, oil, confectionary among others increased to about 30 percent a few days to the holidays.


Citi Business News Reporter Anita Arthur who visited various markets in the capital city Accra reports that it will cost a family of four at least 600 hundred cedis to buy food stuff to cook a full meal of (Goat meat tomato stew and rice )with dessert (Danish cookies medium size and coke) on Christmas day.

So how much are you likely to pay for some essential Christmas foodstuff across markets in Accra during the festive period.

Goat (medium size) – 300 cedis Goat (large size) – 450 cedis Chicken layer (female) – 35 cedis Chicken layer (male) – 65 cedis Chicken broiler (medium) – 30 cedis Rice (50Kg) – 110 cedis Rice (25Kg) – 200 -280 cedis Rice (1 Kg) – 9 cedis Tin tomatoes (2200 gms) – 17 cedis Tim tomatoes (400grms) – 4 cedis Cooking oil (25 litre/gallon) – 130 cedis

Cooking oil (5 litre) – 45 cedis Cooking oil (1 litre) – 13 cedis Confectionaries Piccadilly  (small) 16 cedis Danish cookies (medium size) – 25 cedis

Six pack (1 litre) of coke/fanta/sprite – 47 cedis
By:  Citibusinessnews.com/Ghana