{"id":8238,"date":"2012-03-30T14:36:24","date_gmt":"2012-03-30T14:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/?p=8238"},"modified":"2012-03-30T14:36:24","modified_gmt":"2012-03-30T14:36:24","slug":"malawi-tobacco-sales-suspended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/2012\/03\/30\/malawi-tobacco-sales-suspended\/","title":{"rendered":"Malawi : Tobacco Sales Suspended"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> LILONGWE: Tobacco sales have been suspended for the second time since they started at Lilongwe Auction Floors where growers protested a high rejection rate.<\/p>\n<p>Auction Holdings Limited (AHL) spokesperson Rozita Tanamana confirmed the development.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe rejection rate at Lilongwe market was as high as 75 per cent this morning forcing the suspension,\u201d said Mrs. Tanamana.<\/p>\n<p>Farmers at the Lilongwe market have also been protesting low prices being offered.<\/p>\n<p>Mrs. Tanamana says the Lilongwe market will resume sales Monday next week.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, sales were also suspended at Limbe Auction floors on Thursday because buyers had bought all the leaf that was available for sale there.<\/p>\n<p>During the opening of the Limbe market, tobacco was being bought at as high as $2.35.<\/p>\n<p>Tobacco Control Commission says there is a low output in production of the leaf this year which has dropped by about 40 percent from 237 million kilograms last year to 151 kilograms this year.  &#8211; Zodiak<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LILONGWE: Tobacco sales have been suspended for the second time since they started at Lilongwe Auction Floors where growers protested [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1800,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[258,1015],"class_list":["post-8238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news","tag-malawi","tag-zodiak"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8238","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=8238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8238\/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=8238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}