Mozambique's Tomato 'War' Causes Price Hikes

A group of speculators have successfully pushed up the price of tomatoes in Maputo markets by obstructing cross-border trade, sometimes physically seizing trucks hired by small scale Mozambican importers.

The Kenya Women’s Finance Trust helps women build businesses that enhance food security, including acquiring greenhouses like the one where these tomatoes are growing.

  • Mozambique:   Battle for Control of Trade in Tomatoes

    AIM, 23 March 2012

    A group of Mozambican and South African traders illegally seized three truckloads of tomatoes belonging to rival operators and held them in Komatipoort in South Africa for five… Read more »

  • Mozambique:   Traders Denounce Tomato Mafia

    AIM, 30 December 2011

    Small scale sellers of fresh vegetables on Thursday denounced the existence of a mafia of corrupt wholesalers who are trying to dominate the trade in tomatoes and push the prices… Read more »

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