{"id":6270,"date":"2019-10-31T08:37:41","date_gmt":"2019-10-31T05:37:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=6270"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:39","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:39","slug":"shortage-pushes-maize-price-up-in-dar-es-salaam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/10\/31\/shortage-pushes-maize-price-up-in-dar-es-salaam\/","title":{"rendered":"Shortage Pushes Maize Price Up In Dar Es Salaam"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By Emmanuel Onyango <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dar es\nSalaam residents are having to dig deeper into their pockets to buy maize\nflour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A survey\ncarried out by&nbsp;<em>The EastAfrican<\/em>&nbsp;found that in most shops in Dar\u2019s suburbs, the\naverage cost of a retail price for 1kg maize flour ranges between Tsh1,500\n($0.6) and Tsh1,800 ($0.7) from between Tsh1,000 ($0.4) and Tsh1,300 ($0.5) in\nthe previous quarter of this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Data from\nthe National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) show that in rural areas the current\nretail price for maize flour\u2014consumed by the majority of citizens\u2014has slightly\nincreased by an average rate of between Tsh800 ($0.3) and Tsh950 ($0.4).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The price fluctuations come at a time when Tanzania has experienced bumper harvests on cereal crops during the previous 2017\/2018 harvesting season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theeastafrican.co.ke\/business\/Shortage-pushes-maize-price-up-in-Dar-es-Salaam\/2560-5328332-nvttqlz\/index.html\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Emmanuel Onyango Dar es Salaam residents are having to dig deeper into their pockets to buy maize flour. A survey carried out by&nbsp;The EastAfrican&nbsp;found that in most shops in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6271,"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-6270","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\/6270","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=6270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}