Cattle shortage hits Kumasi abattoir

The ban on export of cattle from Burkina Faso to Ghana by the Burkinabe government is having severe impact in meat production and sale at the Kumasi abattoir. Butchers and cattle dealers at the abattoir are lamenting on the blockade, which has resulted in shortage of cattle and thereby affecting the price of meat in the abattoir and other sales points of cattle meat and other products.