Inflation is making local avocados more expensive than processed juice

As my second blog on Steemit, I don't intend in anyway to make it into a rant or a complaint but it's sad when you see how hard inflation has made life. The basic things we rely on are getting expensive. To look at a raw fruit like the avocado more expensive than a processed fruit juice is just sad. I bought one for ₵35. You see them in the market bowl, the outer skin of the avocado is rough, the weight is the same and nothing about it has changed. But you can tell the amount that the seller says of the avocado is three times, four times and more than what they used to be a few year back.

Watching the process of something grown in Ghanaian soil get priced out of a Ghanaian Kitchen is pretty ridiculous. The trees still existed. The fruit didn't travel anywhere, in between the time the farms sold the avocados to the market, there was a boat that went from Ghana to Rotterdam, which has meant the avocado was shipped twice and charged for both shipping as if it went to Rotterdam.

The sellers are not evil or wrong for charging this price. They are just quoting what they paid for the avocados, what it cost to transport and how much the cedi has gone down against international currencies. Every time the farmer sells their produce, the prices increase before it gets to the market.

Some time back I could get bread and avocado at the market for a little over ₵5, now that avocado at the market requires you to weigh that avocado against everything else you will do for the day after you left for the market. I even skipped some days where I know I'm in a diet and need the raw fruits because of the price.

The seed of the avocado, that brown thing that you throw away, will now become the most valuable thing in your hand after you have checked your weight.