{"id":5296,"date":"2019-09-13T11:21:12","date_gmt":"2019-09-13T08:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=5296"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:32","slug":"farmers-protest-influx-of-cheap-uganda-maize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/09\/13\/farmers-protest-influx-of-cheap-uganda-maize\/","title":{"rendered":"Farmers Protest Influx Of Cheap Uganda Maize"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>By Barnabas\nBii<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maize\nimports from Uganda have helped to stabilize flour prices ahead of the harvest\nseason but farmers in the North Rift are up in arms saying they face losses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\nUgandan cereal retails at Sh2,400 per 90 kilogram- bag, far below the\nprevailing Sh3,200 market price for local produce.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Most\nof the Ugandan grains enter to the country through the Suam border in\nTrans-Nzoia County, a major maize growing zone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Data\nfrom the Regional Agricultural Trade Intelligence Network (Ratin) run by the\nEastern African Grain Council \u2014 which monitors real-time cross-border grain\ntrade \u2014 indicates an increase in quantities of maize crossing into the country\nunder the East African Common (EAC) market protocol.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Besides\nthe Suam crossing, tonnes of maize is also finding its way to Kenya through the\nLwakhakha, Malaba and Busia borders\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessdailyafrica.com\/news\/counties\/Farmers-protest-influx-of-cheap-Uganda-maize\/4003142-5270696-bex91bz\/index.html\">Read\nmore&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Barnabas Bii Maize imports from Uganda have helped to stabilize flour prices ahead of the harvest season but farmers in the North Rift are up in arms saying they&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5297,"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-5296","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\/5296","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=5296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}