{"id":103923,"date":"2025-11-19T11:21:01","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T11:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=103923"},"modified":"2025-11-19T11:21:01","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T11:21:01","slug":"producer-inflation-falls-to-1-4-in-october-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=103923","title":{"rendered":"Producer inflation falls to 1.4% in October 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Producer Price Inflation (PPI) declined to 1.4% in October 2025, down from 3.2% in September 2025.<\/p>\n

This represents a 1.8 percentage point decrease.<\/p>\n

According to data from the Ghana Statistical Service, Mining and Quarrying, the largest sector with a weight of 43.7%, recorded a 4.3 percentage point decrease in producer inflation.<\/p>\n

This was from 5.0% in September 2025 to 0.7% in October 2025.<\/p>\n

Similarly, Manufacturing, which makes up 35% of the PPI weights, increased from 1.7% in September 2025 to 2.5% in October 2025, but was much lower than the 22.7% recorded a year ago.<\/p>\n

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The producer inflation in the Transport and Storage subsector continued to fall, declining from -8.2% in September to -8.8% in October 2025. Thus, producer prices in the sector fell by 8.8% in October.<\/p>\n

The GSS advised businesses to cut costs and raise efficiency by streamlining operations, eliminating waste, and pushing productivity so every cedi works harder.<\/p>\n

It also recommended to the government to support investment where it moves the needle by directing incentives toward firms that expand capacity, upgrade technology, and create jobs.<\/p>\n

It also wants the government to remove structural bottlenecks by fixing energy, transport, and logistics constraints that keep production costs high.<\/p>\n

For households and consumers, it advised them to spend with intention by comparing prices, choosing value, and favoring sellers who pass on lower costs.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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