{"id":3473,"date":"2019-07-01T08:45:41","date_gmt":"2019-07-01T08:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=3473"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:23","slug":"zimbabwe-bans-maize-exports-regulates-local-sales-amid-crippling-drought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/07\/01\/zimbabwe-bans-maize-exports-regulates-local-sales-amid-crippling-drought\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe Bans Maize Exports, Regulates Local Sales Amid Crippling Drought"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>By Crecey Kuyedzwa<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Zimbabwe has banned the buying\nand selling of corn between private individuals and companies, and will only\nallow state owned Grain Marketing Board to be the sole buyer of corn, the\ncountry\u2019s staple food.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The move comes as Zimbabwe\nsaid it is expecting to record a significant reduction in corn production\nfollowing the 2018\/19 season that was characterised by the late onset of rains\nacross the country. According to a second crop and livestock assessment report\nreleased by the Ministry of Agriculture, the estimated maize production stands\nat 776 635 tonnes, which is 54% less than the 1 700 702 tonnes obtained during\nthe 2017\/18 season. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fin24.com\/Economy\/Africa\/zim-bans-maize-exports-regulates-local-sales-amid-crippling-drought-20190629-2\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Crecey Kuyedzwa Zimbabwe has banned the buying and selling of corn between private individuals and companies, and will only allow state owned Grain Marketing Board to be the sole&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3474,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}