{"id":27666,"date":"2016-07-08T12:02:42","date_gmt":"2016-07-08T10:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=27666"},"modified":"2016-07-08T12:02:42","modified_gmt":"2016-07-08T10:02:42","slug":"burley-tobacco-fetching-less","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2016\/07\/08\/burley-tobacco-fetching-less\/","title":{"rendered":"Burley tobacco fetching less"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Latest statistics from the Tobacco Control Commission show that burley tobacco, which is mainly grown by small scale farmers has so far earned $7.8 million, 56 percent below last year \u2019s $17.8 million on the auction market.<\/p>\n<p>The volumes traded for burley stand at 8.3 million kilogrammes against last year\u2019s 11.7 million kilogrammes representing a 29 percent drop.<\/p>\n<p>The average price for burley tobacco was at $1.51 per kilogramme last year while this year it is at $0.93 per kilogramme.<\/p>\n<p>On the contract market, farmers are getting better prices for the same burley as average prices stand at $1.43 per kilogramme while last year, the average price was at $1.68 representing a 15 percent drop.<\/p>\n<p>Contract burley has further earned the country $83 million as compared to last year\u2019s $145.5 million.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, revenue from tobacco continues to fall behind last year\u2019s earnings, with the green gold so far earning $119 million compared $183.5 million realised during the same period last year.<\/p>\n<p>This represents a 35 percent drop in revenue.<\/p>\n<p>So far, 78 million kilogrammes have gone through the auction against last year\u2019s 106 million kilogrammes representing a 26 percent drop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Latest statistics from the Tobacco Control Commission show that burley tobacco, which is mainly grown by small scale farmers has so far earned $7.8 million, 56 percent below last year \u2019s $17.8 million on the auction market. The volumes traded for burley stand at 8.3 million kilogrammes against last year\u2019s 11.7 million kilogrammes representing a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":24711,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27666"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27667,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27666\/revisions\/27667"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}