2024-08-06 22:26:27
In Ghana, the growing number of cattle in the Sahel region is causing the price of beef to fall in the north of the country. In the south, on the other hand, cattle arriving in trucks have increased due to violence in the Sahel. All this causes the already changing prices on meat products to vary.
Trading is going on at the Gunayili market near the town of Tamale in northern Ghana. Livestock is abundant there. Even more, Alhaji Iddrisu, head of the Gunayili market, wrote twelve years ago: ” Before there were so few cows, killers could kill hundreds of cows a day. Now, because of the crowd, they can kill 120 or more. »
Sellers and buyers miss days when there are few cows on the market. In 2017, it was still easy to sell your animals, Alhaji Iddrisu recalled. It was after things changed, when the number of transhumants from the Sahel has increased.
The results are important. Prices have fallen and it is very difficult to sell your product. All you have to do is look at the daily market accordingly. ” Some people will not be able to sell their livestock and so they will return home without selling anything. »
Ban on transhumance
Like Ivory Coast, Ghana also authorizes border transhumance of livestock, that is to say the movement of herds on foot. Some of these transhumants, usually Fulani, flee violence linked to terrorism and come to live in Ghana.
Many countries, like Togo or Benin, have suspend or prohibit transhumance to fight against livestock theft that will be used to finance terror. The movement of herds also causes conflict with farmers when cattle come to graze or attack their farms.
In the south, prices are exploding
In Ghana, not all cattle come from transhumance on foot. Some cows used to board trucks, especially to go to the south of the country. Usually, the large Tulaku market, near Accra, receives six trucks of about forty animals a day.
But fewer and fewer cattle are being trucked to this market, said Issah Amartey, the secretary general of the Ghana Animal Welfare and Traders Association. ” People coming from the north, from Niger or Burkina for example, have stopped coming for security reasons. If they don’t come again, the price of meat has increased », he noted. As a result, butchers buy more expensive meat and at the end of the chain, so do consumers.
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