{"id":275932,"date":"2019-05-11T03:07:30","date_gmt":"2019-05-11T07:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMiL2h0dHBzOi8vYWxsYWZyaWNhLmNvbS9zdG9yaWVzLzIwMTkwNTEzMDI2Mi5odG1s0gEA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-18T11:52:40","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T15:52:40","slug":"wheat-intricacies-an-arsi-grain-traders-view-of-ethiopias-cereal-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/275932","title":{"rendered":"Wheat intricacies: an Arsi grain trader\u2019s view of Ethiopia\u2019s cereal politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An AllAfrica feature from May 2019 followed Debebe Assefa, a grain trader from Bekoji in East Arsi Zone of Oromia, through the messy business of buying cereals from farmers and navigating Ethiopia\u2019s wheat politics.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-434588\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Ethiopia-to-export-wheat-while-there-is-domestic-shortage-Fowg4A1aIAE9vyk.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Wheat intricacies: an Arsi grain trader\u2019s view of Ethiopia\u2019s cereal politics\" \/>\n<p>Wheat sits at the crossroads of price controls, imports, milling margins, and urban bread anxiety. Traders like Debebe see the gap between farmgate reality and official talk about self-sufficiency long before ministries publish neat harvest figures.<\/p>\n<p>Food security in Ethiopia is never only agronomy. It is forex for imports, trucking costs, and political fear of bread queues in Addis Ababa.<\/p>\n<p>As business and food-security archive, the wheat intricacies piece keeps a named trader\u2019s vantage on a staple fight that still shapes Abiy Ahmed\u2019s regime whenever global prices spike.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201905130262.html\">AllAfrica<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopia: Wheat Intricacies&nbsp;&nbsp;AllAfrica.comDebebe Assefa is grain trader from Bekoji East Arsi Zone, Oromia Regional State. He has been involved in the business of buying different kinds of grains from &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":434588,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-275932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Ethiopia-to-export-wheat-while-there-is-domestic-shortage-Fowg4A1aIAE9vyk.jpg?fit=1080%2C809&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-19Mw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275932"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":754507,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275932\/revisions\/754507"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}