{"id":29140,"date":"2023-01-21T04:44:42","date_gmt":"2023-01-21T04:44:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=29140"},"modified":"2023-01-21T04:44:42","modified_gmt":"2023-01-21T04:44:42","slug":"why-are-high-food-prices-slow-to-come-down-its-the-middlemen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=29140","title":{"rendered":"Why are high food prices slow to come down? It\u2019s the middlemen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>High food-prices has become one of the largest burdens on the cost of living for consumers in TT, with even the Trade and Industry Minister, Paula Gopee-Scoon, expressing grave concerns about how much people pay for basic items, such as flour and vegetables.<br \/>\nDespite TT\u2019s costly food-import bill there is still a list of products that are grown locally and supplied to supermarkets which should be easier on customers\u2019 pockets&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/newsday.co.tt\/2023\/01\/19\/why-are-high-food-prices-slow-to-come-down-its-the-middlemen\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=why-are-high-food-prices-slow-to-come-down-its-the-middlemen&#038;utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=why-are-high-food-prices-slow-to-come-down-its-the-middlemen\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>High food-prices has become one of the largest burdens on the cost of living for<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29141,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lse-mrkt"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/29140-why-are-high-food-prices-slow-to-come-down-its-the-middlemen.jpg",1200,796,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/29140-why-are-high-food-prices-slow-to-come-down-its-the-middlemen-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/29140-why-are-high-food-prices-slow-to-come-down-its-the-middlemen-300x199.jpg",300,199,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/29140-why-are-high-food-prices-slow-to-come-down-its-the-middlemen-768x509.jpg",640,424,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/29140-why-are-high-food-prices-slow-to-come-down-its-the-middlemen-1024x679.jpg",640,424,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/29140-why-are-high-food-prices-slow-to-come-down-its-the-middlemen.jpg",1200,796,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/29140-why-are-high-food-prices-slow-to-come-down-its-the-middlemen.jpg",1200,796,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/29140-why-are-high-food-prices-slow-to-come-down-its-the-middlemen-1024x679.jpg",1024,679,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/29140-why-are-high-food-prices-slow-to-come-down-its-the-middlemen-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/29140-why-are-high-food-prices-slow-to-come-down-its-the-middlemen-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=26\" rel=\"category\">London Market<\/a>","tag_info":"London Market","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}