We gonna no longer sell maize to Kenya! 😒😡

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Tumeamua na hakuna wa kutupangia, lengo ni kuheshimiana tu. 😁😁

Tanzania will not be selling maize grains to Kenya as earlier announced, but as flour, President John Magufuli said this past week in Dar es Salaam when he received a delegation from Nairobi that was returning gold and cash stolen from the country.

Maize trade was part of bilateral deals agreed on during President Uhuru Kenyatta's visit to Tanzania earlier this month. This latest pronouncement will help cool tempers that had been stoked by delays in clearing maize consignments at the Holili-Taveta border crossing, with Tanzanian traders accusing Kenyan authorities of laxity.

This past week, truck drivers delivering maize from Tanzania also said they were stranded in Kenya's coastal city Mombasa with their consignment as millers were reluctant to buy the grain.

Already, President Magufuli has ordered the military to buy maize from farmers for milling.

"We have grains in stock that are as old as one-and-a- half years. We shall allow Kenyans to choose the best, then process it at competitive rates and assist in transporting the flour," said the permanent secretary in Tanzania's Ministry of Agriculture Mathew Mtigumwe.



Tanzania's decision to ship in processed maize now puts a spin in the maize politics in Kenya, after the government opened a window to allow millers and traders to import 12.5 million bags to cover a shortfall.

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Earlier, Agriculture Cabinet Secretary Mwangi Kiunjuri had said that Kenya would need maize from mid-August to October, before the harvest, and next year between April and July.

Agriculture Principal Secretary Hamadi Boga said that Kenya needs 4.3 million bags of maize a month from which about 1.5 million bags are milled. The rest is sent to schools as food.

Prof Boga said Kenya needs both the grain and flour, terming the decision by Tanzania to mill the flour as "a high-level diplomatic issue whose details will be out in due course," after a meeting with President Uhuru.



He however added that while it would hurt local millers, importing flour would lock out cartels in Kenya's maize trade who dictate the prices.

According to Subiri Obwogo, a Kenyan agricultural analyst, Tanzania pulled a smart move by choosing to value-add their commodity.

"I can bet that Tanzania will not sell the flour cheaply. This is not charity but a business venture."

Maize importation business is an emotive subject in Kenya.

Mr Kiunjuri's announcement in April that the maize gap needed to be bridged was greeted with disgruntlement in many quarters, with members of parliament, the national Strategic Food Reserve Trust Fund Chairman Dr Noah Wekesa and former Prime Minister Raila Odinga claiming that there was enough food in the country and that importation was choreographed by "cartels."

Read the original article on East African.
 
Nimeamua kuwatoa povu hapo kwenye heading kwanza, 😁😁😁 please focus on the basic content, hii English achaneni nayo. Tuelewane
 
Hata kama sijaelewa i will comment. I am Tanzanian, this is business not battle issue. Let customers decide product to buy and we will get profit which can be used to subside agricultural inputs next time we get more profit.

Kenya and Tanzania should stop battling and think ways to benefit well. If we have scarcity of product and our neighbours have them why not order instead looking abroad.

Africa with pride. However, Kenyans and Tanzanians QUIT MAKING FUSS or BOASTING FOR SELLING or BUYING or PRODUCING among yourselves.
 
We are working smart, adding value and boost value chain in our processing industry thus getting best price, makinikia ya mahindi JPM kasema no.
 
REDEEMER. said:
We are working smart, adding value and boost value chain in our processing industry thus getting best price, makinikia ya mahindi JPM kasema no.
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So our customers need to be treated the way we like? It would be good to discuss with the customers for getting quality and satisfying services for dear customer.
 
As a Kenyan its shameful when we have to buy food from other countries we need to be more self reliant and independant. We need to do better and be better as a people.

Am optimistic that we will eventually get our act together.

And this goes to both Kenyans 🇰🇪 And Tanzanians 🇹🇿

 
Kwani mahindi mliyo nayo yanajitosheleza kwa mahitaji ya ndani? Maana maeneo mengi mwaka jana yalikumbwa na ukame.
 

You're bonkers if you think made in Tanzania flour will be appearing on any Kenyan supermarket shelves.
We will get the maize from Mexico and Brazil and make our own flour.
Mexico maize is even cheaper than Tanzanian maize.
 

Nothing to be shameful about.
Other countries also buy our food.
Even the US and China import food products.
As a matter of fact, Kenya's agricultural exports are more than Tanzania's agricultural exports. Without minerals, Tanzania exports next to nothing.
While Kenya exports are almost purely agricultural.
 
Tanzania bado hatujaweza kufanikiwa vizuri katika Agriculture revolution.
Industrial revolution iko kwenye mchakato kwa mskumo wa Kisiasa.
Kenya wamefanikiwa kwa kiasi kikubwa katika swala Zima la Industrial revolution.
Inchi zenye uchumi wa aina hii zina policy inayozuia finished products toka nje.
Kenya wako tayari kuagiza mahindi hata kutoka Brazili, Zambia, South Africa au popote lakini si kuagiza unga toka Inchi za Nje.
Inchi kama Brazili wameendelea kuliko Tanzania lakini kama kuna Inchi inataka mahindi hawawezi kuwapa masharti kwa sababu wao wanataka pesa.
Tanzania tukubali kuuza ziada ya mahindi yetu Kenya kwa manufaa ya shilingi yetu ukilinganisha na shilingi ya Kenya na kwa manufaa ya wakulima wetu kwa sababu watapata soko na bei zitakuwa juu.
 
We can't buy flour from Tz, Mexico's grains are much cheaper so obviously we will turn to them.
 
Angesikiza katibu mkuu wa wizara ya kilimo alivyozungumza hangeleta huu uharo hapa, Kenya hatuwezi tukaagiza unga maana Sisi mahindi sio ya ugali tu Bali ni malighafi Kwa viwanda vya hapa, pili watu wengi wamepinga hatua hio ya kuagiza mahindi kutoka inje Kwa sababu wakulima bado Wana jao hilo na pia msimu wa mavuno ni mwezi wa tisa Kwa hivyo litakua swala gumu mno kutimizwa.
 
REDEEMER. said:
We are working smart, adding value and boost value chain in our processing industry thus getting best price, makinikia ya mahindi JPM kasema no.
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That's a blunder in trade liberalization,

Let the farmers decide on type by which they want to sell their crops, only it is incumbent to the government to collect its appropriate tax.
 
Mokaze said:
That's a blunder in trade liberalization,

Let the farmers decide on type by which they want to sell their crops, only it is incumbent to the government to collect its appropriate tax.
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Hahahaha, hahahaha, acha kuchekesha watu aisee. Government is responsible for protecting its people including farmers from exploitation, remember by value addition within the country means more jobs and more money for farmers and Government.
 
You have a point.
 
Atuambie anapinga kama nani [emoji23][emoji23][emoji23] au ni yy ndo ananunua kwa niaba
joto la jiwe said:
Hivi wewe huwa unatumia akili kweli?. Tayari Kenya na Tanzania waneshaingia mkataba wa kuuziana unga na mahindi, wewe unasema hamuwezi kununua unga Tanzania. Are you mentally OK?
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Maua yamekuwa chakula siku hizi [emoji23][emoji23][emoji23]
 
Leta hiyo mkataba hapa, all I know is that you are king of rumours. You're talking about maktaba wakati mahindi kutoka Tz umekwama pale Namanga na Mombasa.
joto la jiwe said:
Hivi wewe huwa unatumia akili kweli?. Tayari Kenya na Tanzania waneshaingia mkataba wa kuuziana unga na mahindi, wewe unasema hamuwezi kununua unga Tanzania. Are you mentally OK?
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