{"id":40352,"date":"2019-03-04T07:30:32","date_gmt":"2019-03-04T04:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kfm.co.ug\/?p=40352"},"modified":"2019-03-03T09:39:41","modified_gmt":"2019-03-03T06:39:41","slug":"govt-bans-sale-of-alcohol-in-sachets-buveera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/govt-bans-sale-of-alcohol-in-sachets-buveera\/","title":{"rendered":"Gov&#8217;t bans sale of alcohol in sachets\u00a0&#8220;buveera&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Ritah Kemigisa.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Government has officially banned the packaging and sale of alcohol in sachets.<\/p>\n<p>This follows a cabinet directive in 2017 where it was agreed that alcohol be packaged and sold in plastic and glass bottles of a minimum of 200 millimeters.<\/p>\n<p>The Ministry of Trade together with alcohol manufacturers had\u00a0agreed on a road map to procure, install and commission new bottling packaging production equipment and building new factory premises for new technology bottling machinery.<\/p>\n<p>According to a statement from the trade minister Amelia Kyambadde,\u00a0the process which has taken two years has attracted a lot of investment in bottling equipment to allow the transition.<\/p>\n<p>the ban takes effect on 30th May 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ritah Kemigisa. Government has officially banned the packaging and sale of alcohol in sachets. This follows a cabinet directive in 2017 where it was agreed that alcohol be packaged and sold in plastic and glass bottles of a minimum of 200 millimeters. The Ministry of Trade together with alcohol manufacturers had\u00a0agreed on a road map to procure, install and commission new bottling packaging production equipment and building new factory premises for new technology bottling machinery. According to a statement from the trade minister Amelia Kyambadde,\u00a0the process which has taken two years has attracted a lot of investment in bottling equipment to allow the transition. the ban takes effect on 30th May 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":25770,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40352"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}