{"id":11074,"date":"2012-05-31T07:56:33","date_gmt":"2012-05-31T07:56:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/?p=11074"},"modified":"2012-05-31T07:56:33","modified_gmt":"2012-05-31T07:56:33","slug":"tobacco-revenue-to-fall-by-36-from-last-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/2012\/05\/31\/tobacco-revenue-to-fall-by-36-from-last-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Tobacco revenue to fall by 36% from last year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> News is coming from the tobacco market &#8211; earnings from tobacco, the country\u2019s principal export crop, will dip by 36 percent to $186 million from last year\u2019s $292 due to lower than expected output.<br \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_11077\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/tobacco-chart1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11077\" src=\"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/tobacco-chart1-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"tobacco-chart\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11077\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11077\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tobacco earning have been declining steadily<\/p><\/div><br \/>\nThe bad news spilled by the Farmers Union of Malawi (FUM) who claim to have conducted an earnings assessment, is based on this year\u2019s output of 151 million kilogrammes, a 35 percent drop from last year\u2019s record production of 232 million kilogrammes.<\/p>\n<p>In 2010, earnings from the leaf hit $410 million.<\/p>\n<p>Figures from Tobacco Control Commission for the week ending May 18 2012 show an improvement in earnings which have peaked at $32 million, a 146 percent rise from $13 million achieved during the same period last year.<\/p>\n<p>The average price has also improved to $1.35 per kilogramme from last year\u2019s 83 cents, the figures show, with the rejection rate dropping substantially.<\/p>\n<p>Tobacco accounts for 13 percent of the national economy and supports the livelihoods of millions of Malawi directly and indirectly. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News is coming from the tobacco market &#8211; earnings from tobacco, the country\u2019s principal export crop, will dip by 36 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11077,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[230],"tags":[258,2353,200,1132],"class_list":["post-11074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-agriculture","tag-malawi","tag-revenue","tag-tobacco","tag-tobacco-control-commission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11074","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=11074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}