{"id":5347,"date":"2019-09-17T10:21:43","date_gmt":"2019-09-17T07:21:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=5347"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:32","slug":"yellow-maize-imports-hitch-hits-feed-firms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/09\/17\/yellow-maize-imports-hitch-hits-feed-firms\/","title":{"rendered":"Yellow Maize Imports Hitch Hits Feed Firms"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By <em>Gerald Andae<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Competition\nfor white maize is looming between flour millers and animal feed manufacturers\nfollowing the failure by the Cabinet to approve importation of yellow maize\nused for animal feed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\ndelay, which has already seen the yellow maize selling window in the Black Sea\nregion closed, means that millers would not be in a position to import the\ngrain from Ukraine even if the authorisation was issued now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\nMinistry of Agriculture had prepared a Cabinet memo in July \u2014 creating optimism\nin millers that it would be approved \u2014 to pave the way for the importation of\nthe grain in the wake of a biting shortage of white maize.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe memo was not approved and the window along the Black Sea has closed, however, we are still pushing to have it approved as we understand there are some consignments of yellow maize in Mexico,\u201d said Joseph Karuri, chairperson of Association of Kenya animal Feed manufacturers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mr\nKaruri said they had taken up the matter with the PS Livestock and that they\nhave been in discussion with him\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessdailyafrica.com\/markets\/marketnews\/Yellow-maize-imports-hitch-hits-feed-firms\/3815534-5275788-y8aqcz\/index.html\">Read\nmore&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Gerald Andae Competition for white maize is looming between flour millers and animal feed manufacturers following the failure by the Cabinet to approve importation of yellow maize used for&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5348,"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-5347","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\/5347","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=5347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}