{"id":5719,"date":"2019-10-03T09:29:29","date_gmt":"2019-10-03T06:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=5719"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:34","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:34","slug":"boon-for-traders-as-maize-price-climbs-48-per-cent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/10\/03\/boon-for-traders-as-maize-price-climbs-48-per-cent\/","title":{"rendered":"Boon for Traders As Maize Price Climbs 48 Per Cent"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>By Rosemary Mirondo &amp; Mnaku Mbani<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dar\nes Salaam \u2014 Wholesale price of maize has increased by 48 per cent in a year\ntriggering fears among consumers of the country&#8217;s main staple food.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Bank of Tanzania (BoT) monthly Economic Review for August shows that the wholesale price of maize has climbed significantly to Sh61,341.4 per 100-kilo in July 2019 from the Sh41,283.0 of the corresponding month of 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On a monthly basis, the report shows that the commodity prices also jumped by 2.5 per cent from Sh59,850.6 recorded in June this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This\nis happening despite Tanzania producing sufficient maize during the 2018\/19\nseason, as the report shows 5.8 million tonnes against the required 5.5 million\ntonnes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maize\nis important for the country&#8217;s food security and the skyrocketing prices is a\ncause for concern as maize flour prices keep on rising in urban markets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\npermanent secretary in the Ministry of Industry and Trade, Prof Joseph\nBuchweishaija, said the increase in the maize prices is a result of increased\ndemand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201910020469.html\">Read more&gt;&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Rosemary Mirondo &amp; Mnaku Mbani Dar es Salaam \u2014 Wholesale price of maize has increased by 48 per cent in a year triggering fears among consumers of the country&#8217;s&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5720,"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-5719","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\/5719","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=5719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}