Figure 1 East Africa Regional Grain Trade Flow for the Week Ending 4th November 2017 The Week’s Market Analysis There was an unusual increase in exports from Uganda to Kenya, Beans (6,568MT), Maize (2,568MT), and Millet (2,365MT). Total exports from Uganda to Kenya during the week was (11,827MT) in comparison … Continue reading
Figure 1 East Africa Regional Grain Trade Flow for the Week Ending 29th October 2017 The Week’s Market Analysis An unusual pattern was Tanzania did not export any rice to Uganda during the week, however there was unusually high volume (1,080.5MT) of rice export from Tanzania to Rwanda. Another … Continue reading
Figure 1 East Africa Regional Grain Trade Flow for the Week Ending 21st October 2017 The Week’s Market Analysis The highest traded commodities were Beans (3,687.53MT), Maize (2,522.80MT), Millet (2,207.70MT), Sorghum (1,567.98MT), Rice (1,246.94) and Wheat (1,109.52MT). There was increased export of Wheat, Maize, Peas and Ground Nuts from Rwanda … Continue reading
Figure 1 East Africa Regional Grain Trade Flow for the Week Ending 14th October 2017 The Week’s Market Analysis An unusual trade pattern was Rwanda exported pigeon peas (177MT) to DRC. Rwanda grows pigeon peas mostly for export to DRC. The price of Kenya’s locally grown Pishori rice reached record … Continue reading
The Week’s Market Analysis Maize (2,562MT) was the highest traded commodity during the week. Uganda exported to Rwanda (1,117MT) in comparison to Kenya (955MT). A lot of the trade was through the Cyanika border. Beans (2,556MT) was the second highest traded commodity. Uganda exported to Kenya (1,582MT), as Rwanda exported … Continue reading
Uncertainty over Kenya’s repeat presidential elections greatly affected business and trade in September 2017. Kenya was the month’s leading net importer (25,718MT) of grains, a huge reduction from August 2017 (41,432MT). Kenya’s export in September 2017 were (2,272MT), slightly down from August 2017 (2,331MT). Wheat was Kenya’s only grain export … Continue reading
Figure 1 East Africa Regional Grain Trade Flow for the Week Ending 29th September 2017 The Week’s Market Analysis Beans was the highest traded commodity. The trade flow was mostly Uganda exporting to Kenya (3,382MT) and Rwanda exports to Uganda (1,162MT). Beans prices were highest in Kenya and lowest in … Continue reading
The Week’s Market Analysis Figure 1 East Africa Regional Grain Trade Flow for the Week Ending 22nd September 2017 Maize:- Unusually high volumes of maize was exported from Uganda to Rwanda (1,098MT), in comparison to Uganda’s maize export to Kenya (119MT). This is because Western Kenya has harvested maize, … Continue reading
Figure 1 East Africa Regional Grain Trade Flow for the Week Ending 15th September 2017 The Week’s Market Analysis Western Kenya especially Kitale started harvesting maize, which caused a drop in the price of maize to Ksh26/kg, making maize cheaper in Kenya than in Busia, Uganda (Ksh29.5/kg). For the first … Continue reading
The Week’s Market Analysis Figure 1 East Africa Regional Grain Trade Flow for the Week Ending 8th September 2017 Beans (3,952MT) was the highest traded commodity, followed by Sorghum (2,513MT), Rice (1,584MT), Millet (1,221MT), Maize (1,108MT) and Wheat (1,068MT). Other traded volumes are indicated in Table 1 “The Week’s … Continue reading
August 2017 started with a lot of uncertainty due to fears of post-election violence in Kenya. The announcement of the presidential results directly affected the East Africa cross border trade. With Kenya going back to the ballot box after the nullification of the presidential election by Kenya’s Supreme Court, regional … Continue reading
Figure 1 East Africa Regional Grain Trade for the Week Ending 1 September 2017 The Week’s Market Analysis Sorghum (5,073MT) was the most traded commodity during the week ending 1st September 2017. Beans (4,245MT), Maize (3,361MT), Millet (1,674MT), and Groundnuts (939MT) were the other leading commodities for the week. Trade … Continue reading
The Week’s Market Analysis Figure 1: Uganda’s Exports to the East Africa Region the Week Ending 25 August 2017 Uganda’s grain export dominated the week’s regional trade. Most exports went to Kenya (11,874MT). Exports to other EAC countries were Rwanda (741), Tanzania (135) and DRC (63MT). Tanzania’s grain export was … Continue reading
Figure 1 Uganda’s Exports to Kenya (Busia Border) after Announcement of Kenya’s Presidential Results (11 August 2017 The Week’s Market Analysis The announcement of Kenya’s presidential results on 11 August 2017 was a sigh of relief for many Ugandan and Kenyan traders as demonstrated in Figure 1. Clearly politics, especially … Continue reading
July 2017, was the peak of political campaigns, and the government of Kenya made sure that GoK90 continued to be easily available. By end of July 2017, Kenyan consumers had stopped worrying about maize meal, as the commodity was readily available. The government of Kenya was a … Continue reading
Figure 1 Uganda’s Exports to Kenya (Busia Border) effects of the 8th August 2017 Kenyan Elections The Week’s Market Analysis The Kenyan elections drastically affected the East Africa regional trade. A few days to the elections most traders from Busia were requesting buyers to provide transport for commodity headed for … Continue reading
Maize: Zambia, Malawi and Uganda continues to look at exporting maize into Kenya. Unfortunately, the Government seems to be the only buyer, as most millers and traders are shying away from buying maize from individual suppliers, because of government price control. An interesting observation is the price of maize in … Continue reading
The Week’s Market Opportunities- Kenya is currently experiencing a shortage of pure red millet, the commodity that is currently available in the market is an extremely poor quality mixture of various varieties of millet including black millet. The Nairobi market continues to experience a shortage of the imported long grain … Continue reading
Maize (9,489MT) was the highest traded commodity in the region in the week ending 21st July 2017, a decrease from the previous week (11,304MT). The price of maize is on a decline across all Kenyan markets, as many parts of the country have started harvesting fresh maize. The Government of … Continue reading
Maize (11,304MT) was the highest traded commodity in the week ending 14th July 2017, a 143% increase from the previous week (7,892MT). The flow was mostly Uganda to Kenya, Uganda exported to Kenya (10,043MT), to Rwanda (510MT), and to Tanzania (80MT). Tanzania exported to Kenya (270MT), probably maize exports into … Continue reading
