Food shortage persists
Mar 03, 2006
KATALE WATCH<br>By Ibrahim Kasita<br><br>INADEQUATE food supplies to urban centres due to the planting season has continued to cause shortages, leading to increment in foodstuff prices.
KATALE WATCH
By Ibrahim Kasita
INADEQUATE food supplies to urban centres due to the planting season has continued to cause shortages, leading to increment in foodstuff prices.
A weekly survey carried out in St. Balikuddembe (Owino), Nakasero, Nakawa, Kalerwe and Kireka markets showed that the prices of beans, maize and cassava flour, groundnuts, soya, simsim were up by sh150 and shs200 respectively.
A kilogramme of beans is selling at sh1,200 from sh1,000 last week, maize flour is going for between sh700 and sh800 per kilogramme sh600last week.
A kilogramme of groundnuts and simsim that sold between sh1,500 and sh1,800 last wee, now goes for sh2,000.
Cassava flour has, however, remained at sh500 a kilogramme while millet flour dropped from sh1,000 last week to between sh600 and sh800 a kilogramme.
Traders attributed the price increase to shortages in supplies.
They said the scarcity would propel prices further up until June when the first harvest is expected.
Grain millers said maize flour prices would continue to increase until the current load-shedding crisis is resolved.
By Ibrahim Kasita
INADEQUATE food supplies to urban centres due to the planting season has continued to cause shortages, leading to increment in foodstuff prices.
A weekly survey carried out in St. Balikuddembe (Owino), Nakasero, Nakawa, Kalerwe and Kireka markets showed that the prices of beans, maize and cassava flour, groundnuts, soya, simsim were up by sh150 and shs200 respectively.
A kilogramme of beans is selling at sh1,200 from sh1,000 last week, maize flour is going for between sh700 and sh800 per kilogramme sh600last week.
A kilogramme of groundnuts and simsim that sold between sh1,500 and sh1,800 last wee, now goes for sh2,000.
Cassava flour has, however, remained at sh500 a kilogramme while millet flour dropped from sh1,000 last week to between sh600 and sh800 a kilogramme.
Traders attributed the price increase to shortages in supplies.
They said the scarcity would propel prices further up until June when the first harvest is expected.
Grain millers said maize flour prices would continue to increase until the current load-shedding crisis is resolved.