{"id":178959,"date":"2024-08-21T21:53:15","date_gmt":"2024-08-21T19:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-hippo-sugar-volume-dips-7pc\/"},"modified":"2024-08-21T21:53:15","modified_gmt":"2024-08-21T19:53:15","slug":"zimbabwe-hippo-sugar-volume-dips-7pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-hippo-sugar-volume-dips-7pc\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Hippo Sugar Volume Dips 7pc"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">Michael Tome \u2014 HIPPO Valley Estates Limited recorded a seven percent decline in domestic sales in the first quarter to June 2024, due to the spillover effect of duty-free sugar imports on the domestic market.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">This follows the repeal of Statutory Instrument 80 of 2023, which took effect on February 1, 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">Following the publication of the statutory instrument 80 in May 2023, domestic market sales for the sugar industry experienced immense pressure from the cheaper imports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">The sales performance&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202408210494.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Tome \u2014 HIPPO Valley Estates Limited recorded a seven percent decline in domestic sales in the first quarter to June 2024, due to the spillover effect of duty-free sugar imports on the domestic market. This follows the repeal of Statutory Instrument 80 of 2023, which took effect on February 1, 2024. Following the publication [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[49337,258,256,20447,21519,257,254,11531,18519,4686,421],"class_list":["post-178959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-7pc","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-dips","tag-hippo","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sugar","tag-volume","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}