{"id":4800,"date":"2019-08-22T09:00:02","date_gmt":"2019-08-22T06:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=4800"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:29","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:29","slug":"cement-firms-export-income-falls-65pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/08\/22\/cement-firms-export-income-falls-65pc\/","title":{"rendered":"Cement Firms Export Income Falls 65pc"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>By Constant Munda<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Earnings from exports\nby Kenyan cement firms have touched a new low, signaling loss of job\nopportunities to regional countries in the wake of a drop in domestic orders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Preliminary exports\nstatistics by the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) show income from domestic cement\nexports plunged to Sh362.28 million in the first six months of the year, a\n65.28 percent dip compared with Sh1.04 billion a year earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kenya\u2019s cement exports\nin the review period have been declining sharply since 2015 largely due to\nsetting up of new grinding plants and expansion of existing ones in Uganda and\nTanzania\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessdailyafrica.com\/economy\/Cement-firms-export-income-falls-65pc\/3946234-5244392-2at8mv\/index.html\">Read\nmore&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Constant Munda Earnings from exports by Kenyan cement firms have touched a new low, signaling loss of job opportunities to regional countries in the wake of a drop in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4801,"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-4800","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\/4800","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=4800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}