I WRITE to offer my displeasure at the Ministry of Agriculture amid mealie meal and maize shortages and escalating prices in most towns.When there was donations of maize to Malawi when they had a hunger crisis, we rose up in numbers to cry foul because we thought we didn’t have enough for ourselves.Government stood firm and said we had enough even to last up to 2021 and we kept quiet yet prices continued going up and the shortage continued.As if that was not enough, just a few months ago when we were hit badly by the shortage, Agriculture Minister Michael that we have enough maize and that the shortage was artificially created by millers who vehemently denied it.minister repeated his assurance that we have enough maize to offload to the millers so that the price of our staple food can be stabilised, but that again didn’t For him to this week to now come and […]
Ministry of Agricultue offside over maize stocks
