End of state monopoly on the importation of ordinary rice
L'Onicor (National Rice Import and Marketing Office) is no longer the only organization authorized to import ordinary rice into the Union of the Comoros. The implementing order for a decree written a year earlier has finally been published, end of August : the importation of the staple food of the Comorians is liberalized. The State made this concession in order to put an end to a situation of recurring shortage in the country, especially on the overpopulated island of Anjouan, where the price of rice doubled, even tripled in certain villages. A World Bank study on the rice market in the Comoros, carried out in 2022, believed that the end of the Onicor monopoly, poorly managed, would reduce the price of ordinary rice. But the study also pointed out the risk of the formation of cartels, which would have the opposite effect.
