Wed, 08 Feb 2017 10:10:33 +0000 THE need for foreign-owned supermarkets to provide ready market for locally grown agricultural produce is the surest way to enable farmers derive maximum benefits from foreign investment. The disclosure by Agriculture Minister Dora Siliya that Government will engage the owners of foreign-owned supermarkets to provide market for local farmers is long overdue. “We cannot have a situation where products that could be accessed locally by the supermarkets are being imported from other countries when this is the only way our farmers can benefit from these investments,’’ Minister of Agriculture said. For far too long local farmers have been deprived of reliable and guaranteed market for their produce because many foreign-owned supermarkets have been allowed to import agricultural produce which can easily be sourced locally. Why should supermarkets be allowed to import agricultural produce which local farmers can supply to them? It is actually embarrassing, to say the least, […]
