date:May 26, 2016
At Kireka market, a township in central Uganda, several fruit and vegetable products have seen a drop in their prices since the beginning of May. These include eggplants, mangoes, pineapples and pawpaws.
Prices for pineapples range between sh2,000 and sh3,000 and sh1,500 to sh2,000 for a pawpaw (papaya).
Barbra Nantume, a trader at Ggaba market, says the reduction in prices is due to continued supply onto the market.
However, the supplies of watermelon dwindled, leading to an increase in pr