Sun, 25 Feb 2018 10:49:07 +0000 By Professor Mwine Lubemba THE joy of a bumper harvest in Zambia is being erased by an artificial severe maize shortage at some privately owned and operated milling plants. They are making life unbearable for millions of people in urban areas, who have to spend more of their own money to put the staple food on the table. But Zambia National Farmers Union (ZNFU) president Jarvis Zimba charged that millers were blackmailing government to make a political decision to release maize from the Food Reserve Agency (FRA) by deliberately keeping mealie meal prices high while refusing to buy the crop from farmers. The ZNFU president advised that it would be suicidal for government to release FRA maize now without a crop forecast for the next season. He maintained that there was no maize shortage in the country, “there is plenty of maize, but millers who did not buy […]
Mealie Meal Price Crisis Sours Healthy Harvest in Zambia
