Farmers in Ghana are predicting further increases in food prices as harvest season draws nearer. This is in spite of the government’s projections that the impending harvest season will help the country fight inflation. 

Ghana has seen its inflation cross a more than 30-year high hitting 31.7 percent for the month of July. 

The country’s president, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo while speaking to the Methodist church intimated that the government’s investment in the agricultural sector during the planting season would yield positive results. 

This he added will help deal with food price hikes which are a major contributory factor to the rising inflation. But the farmer groups have shot down the government projections. 

Senior Programmes officer of the Peasant Farmers Association, Dr. Charles Nyaaba tells correspondent, Eric Mawuena Egbeta that the government’s investment is not enough to reduce food prices.