{"id":5304,"date":"2017-09-04T13:13:36","date_gmt":"2017-09-04T10:13:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bettagrains.com\/?p=5304"},"modified":"2017-09-04T13:13:36","modified_gmt":"2017-09-04T10:13:36","slug":"east-africa-regional-grain-trade-analysis-for-the-week-ending-1-september-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bettagrains.com\/?p=5304","title":{"rendered":"East Africa Regional Grain Trade Analysis for the Week Ending 1 September 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bettagrains.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Map-EA-Regional-Grain-Trade-Week-Ending-1-September-2017-web-1.png\">Figure 1 East Africa Regional Grain Trade for the Week Ending 1 September 2017<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bettagrains.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Map-EA-Regional-Grain-Trade-Week-Ending-1-September-2017-web-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5305 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bettagrains.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Map-EA-Regional-Grain-Trade-Week-Ending-1-September-2017-web-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"560\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bettagrains.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Map-EA-Regional-Grain-Trade-Week-Ending-1-September-2017-web-1.png 900w, https:\/\/www.bettagrains.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Map-EA-Regional-Grain-Trade-Week-Ending-1-September-2017-web-1-300x187.png 300w, https:\/\/www.bettagrains.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Map-EA-Regional-Grain-Trade-Week-Ending-1-September-2017-web-1-768x478.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3><strong>The Week\u2019s Market Analysis<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Sorghum (5,073MT)<\/strong> was the most traded commodity during the week ending 1<sup>st <\/sup>September 2017. <strong>Beans (4,245MT)<\/strong>, <strong>Maize (3,361MT)<\/strong>, <strong>Millet (1,674MT)<\/strong>, and <strong>Groundnuts (939MT)<\/strong> were the other leading commodities for the week.\u00a0 Trade volumes for the other commodities are indicated on Table 1 \u201cThe Week\u2019s Market Prices for Select Markets\u201d.<\/li>\n<li>There was very little trade between <strong>Kenya and Tanzania (148MT)<\/strong>, in comparison to <strong>Tanzania &#8211; Uganda (2,539MT)<\/strong>, and <strong>Tanzania \u2013 Rwanda (665MT)<\/strong>. Most of the commodities traded in the East Africa region end up in Kenya, it is therefore safe to conclude various reports of Tanzania imposing trade barriers on Kenya as probably true, based on the flow of commodities moving from Tanzania to Uganda then Kenya. This is something the region\u2019s trade policy experts need to look at.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Malawian<\/strong> groundnuts are in plenty of supply in Uganda and Rwanda, as both countries seems to have increased their imports of groundnuts from Tanzania. Uganda exports groundnuts to Rwanda, Rwanda exports groundnuts to DRC.<\/li>\n<li>Trade between Rwanda and DRC significantly declined during the week. Rwanda did not export any maize and rice to DRC has in the previous weeks, there was also a significant reduction in the amount of wheat exported to DRC.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>The Week\u2019s Market Prices for Select Markets<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bettagrains.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Table-Price-Analysis-Week-Ending-1-September-2017-web-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5306 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bettagrains.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Table-Price-Analysis-Week-Ending-1-September-2017-web-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"272\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bettagrains.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Table-Price-Analysis-Week-Ending-1-September-2017-web-1.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.bettagrains.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Table-Price-Analysis-Week-Ending-1-September-2017-web-1-300x91.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bettagrains.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Table-Price-Analysis-Week-Ending-1-September-2017-web-1-768x232.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/>\u00a0 \u00a0 Table 1 &#8211; Market Prices for Select Markets in the East Africa Region for the Week Ending 1 September 2017<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The price of maize in Nairobi, is expected to go up, as the Government of Kenya maize flour subsidy program is coming to an end.\u00a0 Unfortunately for Kenyans, this comes at a time when the price of maize in Uganda, is beginning to increase, as the season wides up.\u00a0 However this should be good news for Zambia and Malawi maize suppliers who have been wanted to export more maize to Kenya.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>The Week\u2019s Market Opportunities <\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Betta Grains continues to receive various request to buy and sell grains and cereal.\u00a0 Kindly visit our eDuka page <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bettagrains.com\/?page_id=1236\">https:\/\/www.bettagrains.com\/?page_id=1236<\/a> for a more up to date list.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bettagrains.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Market-Opportunties-for-Week-Ending-1-September-2017-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5308 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bettagrains.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Market-Opportunties-for-Week-Ending-1-September-2017-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"911\" height=\"601\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bettagrains.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Market-Opportunties-for-Week-Ending-1-September-2017-1.jpg 911w, https:\/\/www.bettagrains.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Market-Opportunties-for-Week-Ending-1-September-2017-1-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bettagrains.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Market-Opportunties-for-Week-Ending-1-September-2017-1-768x507.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 911px) 100vw, 911px\" \/>Table 2: \u00a0Market Opportunities for the Week ending 1 September 2017<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Author; Fostina Mani, Betta Grains. <a href=\"mailto:Fostina.Mani@bettagrains.com\">Fostina.Mani@bettagrains.com<\/a>, Twitter: @FostinaMani.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><em>Acknowledgment:\u00a0 The data used for the analysis has been obtained from; IAM, Government of Kenya, Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock &amp; Fisheries, Government of Tanzania, Ministry of Trade and Industry, EAGC, RATIN, Farm Gain Uganda, FEWS NET, \u00a0&amp; Betta Grains.\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><em>Disclaimer. <\/em><em>Due to unavailable of data on various border points on formal cross-border trade flows and volumes in the public arena.\u00a0 The volumes indicated above are mostly from the informal cross-border data that is available to the public.\u00a0 The purpose of the analysis, is simply to provide an indication of the East Africa Regional Trade flow to SMEs, Smallholder Farmers, and Other Stakeholders in a manner and language that is applicable, simple, and makes sense. Those desiring to obtain actual trade volumes are advised to contact various internationally funded government projects that have been mandated to provide the regional trade data for public good.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00a9Betta Grains 2017<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Figure 1 East Africa Regional Grain Trade for the Week Ending 1 September 2017 The Week\u2019s 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.\u00a0 Trade &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bettagrains.com\/?p=5304\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,23,22,28,24,173,26,174],"tags":[222,223,181,150,218,238,229,194,236,214,158,92,215,190,219,159,227,161,217,213,119,208,211,41,47,32,237,230,64,228,232,155,221,154,231,164,177,152,187,120,235,73,234,189,178,188,220,216,191],"class_list":["post-5304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-corn","category-grains","category-green-grams","category-maize","category-regional","category-rice","category-trade","tag-ea-trade","tag-foodsecure","tag-africa","tag-beans","tag-betta","tag-bran","tag-breast","tag-burundi","tag-cake","tag-congo","tag-cowpeas","tag-dolichos","tag-dr-congo","tag-drc","tag-eagc","tag-east","tag-ethiopia","tag-farmers","tag-fews-net","tag-flow","tag-food","tag-grains","tag-imported","tag-kenya","tag-maize-2","tag-market","tag-meal","tag-milk","tag-millet","tag-nursing-mothers","tag-nutrition","tag-pigeon-peas","tag-poor","tag-prices","tag-production","tag-regional-agricultural-trade-intelligence-network","tag-regional","tag-rice","tag-rwanda","tag-security","tag-seed","tag-sorghum","tag-sunflower","tag-tanzania","tag-trade","tag-uganda","tag-urban","tag-volumes","tag-wheat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bettagrains.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bettagrains.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bettagrains.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bettagrains.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bettagrains.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5304"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bettagrains.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5309,"href":"https:\/\/www.bettagrains.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5304\/revisions\/5309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bettagrains.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bettagrains.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bettagrains.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}