{"id":6711,"date":"2019-11-30T08:40:18","date_gmt":"2019-11-30T05:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bettagrains.com\/?p=6711"},"modified":"2019-11-30T08:40:18","modified_gmt":"2019-11-30T05:40:18","slug":"an-eagles-view-on-africas-grain-markets-week-ending-2nd-november-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bettagrains.com\/?p=6711","title":{"rendered":"An Eagle\u2019s View on Africa\u2019s Grain Markets Week Ending 2nd November 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bettagrains.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Egles-Eye-Chart-31-August-2019-web.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6712\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bettagrains.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Egles-Eye-Chart-31-August-2019-web.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.bettagrains.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Egles-Eye-Chart-31-August-2019-web-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bettagrains.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Egles-Eye-Chart-31-August-2019-web-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bettagrains.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Egles-Eye-Chart-31-August-2019-web-620x350.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><figcaption>Figure 1 Green Grams &amp; Yellow Beans Wholseale Prices August 2018 &#8211; October 2019  (Betta Grains, Kenya&#8217;s Ministry of Agriculture, RATIN) <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>The Week\u2019s\nMarket Analysis<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The price of Dolichos has drastically increased\nbecause of the commodity\u2019s shortage in Tanzania, caused by delayed rainfall in\nthe East Africa Region.&nbsp; <\/li><li>Nairobi is currently experiencing a huge shortage\nof maize, coupled with increasingly high wholesale prices of the\ncommodity.&nbsp;<\/li><li>The price of Green Grams has also drastically\nincreased from Ksh95(US$0.95)\/kg to Ksh150(US$1.50)\/kg, a result of delayed\nrainfalls, and diminishing supply of the commodity in the market.<\/li><li>Kenya had a huge shortage of both white and red\ngroundnuts, an excellent business opportunity for groundnut suppliers.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Week&#8217;s Market Prices for Selected Markets<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"251\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bettagrains.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Table-Analysis-Price-31-August-2019-web.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6714\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bettagrains.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Table-Analysis-Price-31-August-2019-web.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.bettagrains.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Table-Analysis-Price-31-August-2019-web-300x84.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bettagrains.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Table-Analysis-Price-31-August-2019-web-768x214.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><figcaption>Table 1  Market Prices for a few Selected Markets for the Week Ending 2 November 2019.  US$1= Ksh100 (Approximate)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Author; Fostina Mani, Betta Grains. <a href=\"mailto:Fostina.Mani@bettagrains.com\">Fostina.Mani@bettagrains.com<\/a>,\nTwitter: @FostinaMani.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><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, FarmGain Uganda, Knoema, FEWS NET, AHCX, \u00a0USDA &amp; Betta Grains.\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Disclaimer. <\/em><em>The purpose of the analysis, is simply to provide an indication of the\nAfrica Regional Markets to SMEs, Smallholder Farmers, and Other Stakeholders in\na manner and language that is applicable, simple, and easy to understand. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a9Betta Grains 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Week\u2019s Market Analysis The price of Dolichos has drastically increased because of the commodity\u2019s shortage in Tanzania, caused by delayed rainfall in the East Africa Region.&nbsp; Nairobi is currently experiencing a huge shortage of maize, coupled with increasingly high wholesale prices of the commodity.&nbsp; The price of Green Grams &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bettagrains.com\/?p=6711\">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":[143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-healthy-ugali-cornbread"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bettagrains.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6711","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=6711"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bettagrains.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6716,"href":"https:\/\/www.bettagrains.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6711\/revisions\/6716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bettagrains.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bettagrains.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bettagrains.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}