Effort at driving down infatuation may be hastened with the engagement of sub national government agencies-Government Statistician.

The Ghana statistical Service (GSS) has released the maiden report on food price variability across regions in Ghana which presents statistic in the variation of prices in ten selected food items within regions and between regions.

The Government Statistician Prof. Samuel Kobina Annim presented highlights from the report which indicated that price variations within and across regions are commodity specific as the pattern observed differ from the selected food items.

The findings from the report points to the need for strategies to address regional food price disparities.

Prof Annim noted that efforts at driving down infatuation may be hastened with the engagement of sub national governmental agencies.

A key finding of the report which was released in Kumasi indicated that food price variations within regions is generally larger than price variation across regions as eight out of ten items had higher within region variation than between regions.

Prof Annim said there is less price variation across regions for commodities with standard packaging such as milk and tomato paste that have multiple regions recording the same median price.

Items without standard packaging such as cassava and plantain show substantial variation across regions.

Meanwhile inflation for the month of May stood at 42.1 percent as against 41, in April.

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Lawrence Kumah