Thu, 24 Nov 2016 11:20:20 +0000 GOVERNMENT will ensure that the price of mealie meal does not escalate further, Agriculture Minister Dora Siliya has vowed. Currently the national average price of a 25kg bag of breakfast mealie meal is approximately K90, while roller meal is selling between K65 and K70. Ms. Siliya told Parliament yesterday that Government was concerned with the increase in mealie meal prices and had since come up with strategies in both the maize and mealie meal value chain. Ms. Siliya also disclosed that Government intended to increase community sales of maize through the Food Reserve Agency in conjunction with the Disaster Management and Mitigation Unit in the office of the Vice President, to ensure that needy communities and households did not go hungry. Ms. Siliya said Government would increase maize sales to solar milling plants established across the country under the Zambia Cooperatives Federation. She further indicated that special allocations would […]
