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Food glut hits Ghana

November 19, 2025

Farmers blame cheap imports for flooding the market, while government efforts to intervene with a 200-million-cedi fund fall short of the 500 million cedis they say is needed.

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Maxwell Suuk Maxwell is a DW reporter based in Tamale, Northern Ghana.
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