{"id":28681,"date":"2011-07-26T14:03:51","date_gmt":"2011-07-26T14:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amharic.thehabesha.com\/?p=1496"},"modified":"2022-03-17T06:53:29","modified_gmt":"2022-03-17T13:53:29","slug":"ethiopia-corn-price-soars-61-percent-on-east-african-drought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amharic.zehabesha.com\/?p=28681","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia Corn Price Soars 61 Percent on East African Drought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Brian Latham) Corn prices have soared 61 percent in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, from this time last year, the partly U.S.-funded Famine Early Warning Network Systems said.<\/p>\n<p>The price of corn is also 56 percent higher than the five- year average, the organization, known as Fewsnet, said in an e- mailed statement today.<\/p>\n<p>Since Ethiopia\u2019s 2004-2005 farming season the price of 100 kilograms (220 pounds) of corn has climbed from about 140 birr ($8) to about 780 birr, said Fewsnet.<\/p>\n<p>Relief organizations provided food to about 3.2 million out of the targeted 4 million facing shortages, Fewsnet said.<\/p>\n<p>To contact the reporter on this story: Brian Latham in Harare, Zimbabwe at blatham@bloomberg.net.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Brian Latham) Corn prices have soared 61 percent in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, from this time last year, the partly U.S.-funded Famine Early Warning Network Systems said. The price of corn is also 56 percent higher than the five- year average, the organization, known as Fewsnet, said in an e- mailed statement today. Since Ethiopia\u2019s 2004-2005 farming season the price of 100 kilograms (220 pounds) of corn has climbed from about 140 birr ($8) to about 780 birr, said Fewsnet. Relief organizations provided food to about 3.2 million out of the targeted 4 million facing shortages, Fewsnet said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1498,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amharic.zehabesha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amharic.zehabesha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amharic.zehabesha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amharic.zehabesha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amharic.zehabesha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amharic.zehabesha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amharic.zehabesha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amharic.zehabesha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amharic.zehabesha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amharic.zehabesha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}