Twitter trending egypt12/3/2023 ![]() The same hashtag trended last month, with nearly 300,000 tweets over several days, but then subsided. ![]() The Twitter hashtag “Leave, Sisi” was the top trend in Egypt on the social media platform late in the day with more than 50,000 tweets. However, the demand for potatoes in fast-food joints surged after the easing of the social distancing rules, peaking in December as Kenyans went for eat outs with friends and families.Cairo: Egyptians renewed online criticism of President Abdel Fattah al- Sisi on Saturday, hours after he said he was “saddened” by a similar campaign a few weeks ago. “People who were eating out find it cheaper to eat from home,” said Timothy Njagi, a research fellow at Tegemeo Institute, a public policy think-tank. However, a decline in effective demand due to job losses saw a kilo of the crop retail at an average price of Sh67.3 last year, a drop of 5.34 per cent from Sh71.1 in 2019. The quantity of potatoes produced in the country decreased to 1.9 million bags last year from two million bags in 2019, official data shows. Potatoes are Kenya’s second most important food crop, after maize. India was the largest source of imported potatoes globally, supplying 10.4 per cent of the food crop. However, according to data from the Observatory of Economic Complexity (OEC), a visualisation tool for international trade data, the main source of Kenya’s imported potatoes is the Netherlands, which supplies nearly 90 per cent of the tuber. Other major potato-growing counties include Nyandarua, Nyeri, Kiambu, and Murang’a. Nakuru County, according to the census results of 2019, had the highest number of households that grow potatoes. The farm gate price of the 90kg bag of potatoes has recently hit an all-time low of between Sh450 and Sh600 in Molo, Nakuru County. The KFC potato shortage comes even as local farmers continue to struggle with an oversupply of the produce. Other KFC meal products including ugali, buns, chicken and coleslaw are however available, the franchise said on Twitter. Ships have been delayed for more than a month now, but we are working hard to restore as the first containers are arriving in the port tomorrow (Tuesday, January 4),” Theunissen told Business Daily. ![]() “It has to do with delays in shipping lines due to the Covid-19 situation. The KFC East Africa boss said the shortage would be resolved by Tuesday, January 4, saying scarcity of potato supply had been occasioned by the Covid-19 crisis. “The reason we cannot buy local at the moment is all suppliers need to go through the global QA approval process and we cannot bypass that even if we run out to ensure that our food is safe for consumption by our customers,” he said. In an interview with the Business Daily on Monday, KFC chief executive officer for the East African market, Jacques Theunissen, said Kenyan farmers were yet to undergo training on producing potatoes that meet the standards set by the franchise. KFC imports potatoes from Egypt, saying there’s no supplier in Kenya who trades large quantities of pre-cut sliced blanched frozen potatoes. No reprieve as Supreme Court refuses to suspend Ruto taxes Premium.Farmers' sweet old days before the collapse of state-owned factories.Why sugar reforms must include deliberate efforts to crush barons, cartels Premium.How Hustler Fund is eating into leading lenders' mobile money lunch Premium.Private sector activity on the up for the first time in seven months.
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