{"id":451817,"date":"2011-07-01T14:28:55","date_gmt":"2011-07-01T14:28:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/07\/01\/economic-indicators-point-to-reduced-growth\/"},"modified":"2011-07-01T14:28:55","modified_gmt":"2011-07-01T14:28:55","slug":"economic-indicators-point-to-reduced-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/07\/01\/economic-indicators-point-to-reduced-growth\/","title":{"rendered":"Economic Indicators Point to Reduced Growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"34.1613765453\">\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nation.co.ke\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/img\/static\/publishers\/minibanners\/nation180.jpg\" alt=\"The Nation (Nairobi)\" title=\"Visit The Nation (Nairobi)\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>30 June 2011<\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>Nairobi \u2014 Economic growth could decelerate to 5.1 per cent this year from 5.6 last year, due to unfavourable weather conditions and rising food and fuel prices.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Edward Sambili, permanent secretary in the ministry of Planning, said this, noting that in agriculture, tea production, which is among the leading foreign exchange earners, dropped by 7.3 per cent in the first four months of 2011 from 137,833 metric tonnes last year to 127,858 metric tonnes this year.<\/p>\n<p>The PS, who was presenting the latest economic indicators during the National Economic and Social Council meeting in Naivasha recently, said that in terms of value, tea dropped from Sh32.6 billion to Sh31.9 billion.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As a result of lower production in the earlier part of this year, the Kenya Tea Board projects a 9.3 per cent decline in total export volume from 440 million kilogrammes last year to 399 million kilogrammes this year,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Sambili added that milk production declined by 11 per cent this year compared to a similar period in 2010, with projections by the Kenya Dairy Board indicating a 5 per cent decline in annual output.<\/p>\n<p>There is, however, reprieve in coffee and sugar cane production, as well as in manufacturing, since production went up.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<fieldset>\n<legend align=\"center\"><strong>More News on allAfrica.com<\/strong><\/legend>\n<\/fieldset>\n<p>AllAfrica &#8211; All the Time<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Continue Reading:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201107010955.html\" title=\"Economic Indicators Point to Reduced Growth\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Economic Indicators Point to Reduced Growth<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 30 June 2011 Nairobi \u2014 Economic growth could decelerate to 5.1 per cent this year from 5.6 last year, due to unfavourable weather conditions and rising food and fuel prices. Dr Edward Sambili, permanent secretary in the ministry of Planning, said this, noting that in agriculture, tea production, which is among the leading foreign exchange earners, dropped by 7.3 per cent in the first four months of 2011 from 137,833 metric tonnes last year to 127,858 metric tonnes this year. The PS, who was presenting the latest economic indicators during the National Economic and Social Council meeting in Naivasha recently, said that in terms of value, tea dropped from Sh32.6 billion to Sh31.9 billion. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-451817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Economic Indicators Point to Reduced Growth - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/07\/01\/economic-indicators-point-to-reduced-growth\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Economic Indicators Point to Reduced Growth - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"30 June 2011 Nairobi \u2014 Economic growth could decelerate to 5.1 per cent this year from 5.6 last year, due to unfavourable weather conditions and rising food and fuel prices. 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