{"id":10048,"date":"2012-05-06T12:56:08","date_gmt":"2012-05-06T12:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/?p=10048"},"modified":"2012-05-06T12:56:08","modified_gmt":"2012-05-06T12:56:08","slug":"tobacco-raking-in-needed-forex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/2012\/05\/06\/tobacco-raking-in-needed-forex\/","title":{"rendered":"Tobacco raking in needed Forex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Tobacco sales currently underway in Malawi continue to rake in the much needed foreign currency to revive the southern Africa country\u2019s foreign reserves.<\/p>\n<p>Malawi has been in the middle of economic crisis that led to shortage of forex and fuel especially during the rule of late President Mutharika, a professorial but temperamental economist who fell out with major donors.<br \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_8977\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/A-pick-up-truck-carrying-tobacco-bales-arrives-at-the-auction-floors-in-central-Malawi-district-of-Kasungu.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8977\" src=\"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/A-pick-up-truck-carrying-tobacco-bales-arrives-at-the-auction-floors-in-central-Malawi-district-of-Kasungu-300x197.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"A-pick-up-truck-carrying-tobacco-bales-arrives-at-the-auction-floors-in-central-Malawi-district-of-Kasungu\" width=\"300\" height=\"197\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8977\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8977\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Malawi&#039;s gold<\/p><\/div><br \/>\nFrom three million dollars realized in the third week of the sales, the revenue has jumped to $7 m about over K1b.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement Auction Holdings Limited said the prevailing minimum price is $1 23 cents in all the markets.<\/p>\n<p>Tobacco Control Commission further said low stocks of the leaf continue to delay opening of the remaining Mzuzu market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tobacco sales currently underway in Malawi continue to rake in the much needed foreign currency to revive the southern Africa [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[230],"tags":[2309,340,815,258,200],"class_list":["post-10048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agriculture","tag-forex-shortage","tag-lilongwe","tag-mzuzu","tag-malawi","tag-tobacco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10048\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}