Mon, 24 Jul 2017 13:51:55 +0000 By MAILESI BANDA THE local potato industry is being suffocated by the flooding of imported potatoes from South Africa and this has led to a reduction of the price of the local produce by forty percent. This has forced the local farmers to sale below the cost of production, Buuya Baamba managing director, Anhtony Barker has said. Mr. Barker said the industry was struggling with the potatoes coming in from South Africa because the farmers there produced the potatoes at a low cost due to the tax exempt status. Speaking in an interview with the Daily Nation, he said the local market was struggling and appealed to the government to regulate the imports. “We are struggling because of the imported potatoes from South Africa. The country has a huge over supply of potatoes and they had a bumper harvest and this has continued to flood our struggling market,” he […]
