Fri, 27 Oct 2017 09:28:15 +0000 By Oscar Malipenga WHEAT farmers have hiked the price of wheat to US$420 from US$370 per ton, meaning the price of bread and other wheat products will soon increase as well. Millers Association of Zambia (MAZ) president Andrew Chintala confirmed the development to the Daily Nation yesterday. Currently, wheat farmers are selling their commodity between US$380 to US$420 compared to US$360 to US$370 last season. Mr Chintala said wheat farmers decided to increase because of the 75 percent increase in electricity tariffs as almost all the farmers were using irrigation system to grow the crop. Meanwhile, Mr Chintala said MAZ requested the government through the Ministry of Agriculture to ban the importation of the commodity because the farmers were still harvesting and that the demand for wheat locally had not increased. “There are no imports currently, we requested government to stop the importation, the last importation was the first […]
