Fri, 23 Feb 2018 08:11:35 +0000 Paying a fair price Dear Editor, Days of cheap Nshima have come to an end. Millers have now met their match in angry farmers represented by the Zambia National Farmers Union which is demanding for a fair return on their work. For too long millers have been blackmailing Government into subsidizing maize on the pretext that the staple food was a political dynamite which the State would not wish to destabilize. The result was that Government always set a price for maize which invariably disadvantaged farmers. This time round farmers are hitting back by holding back their maize until a fair price is paid to them. For too long consumers on the line of rail and in urban centers have used their political muscle to blackmail Government into low maize meal prices without considering the cost at which the farmers were producing. In all fairness the producers must be […]
