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Now who do we believe or who has the final say, this is rather confusing now, farmers were encouraged to export more,now it’s seems less likely why did mr Scott make those statements without consultation, this veep talks too much sometimes and he has no specific ministry he seems to be all over the place
Guy Scott does not speak for the PF govt. I doubt that even Wilbur Simuusa does. The people who speak for the PF govt are Sata, Kaseba, Chikwanda, katema, Kambwili, kasonde plus or minus a few more.
PF what kind of govt have you formed? Yes, we have been informed of you ministers being useless. But to what level of uselessness is this? One day the higher officer in the name of G Scott, he asks farmers to export the maize as a way of assisting to stabilize the kwacha, only 72hours later Simusa you say you are still consulting. Really, with this approach you expert donors, investors to have confidence in your govt? Are you sure of what you are doing in that govt or cabinet. Chances are that Sata is also getting shocked with the level of incompetence being displayed by his team. Anyways, we shall watch and see how you decampaign yourselves as the pressure mounts towards 2016.
It appears the Vice president does not know his own governments policy! How then can one explain his encouraging farmers to export maize when PF instituted a Maize export ban! These are the devastating effects of the brain drain on Zambia! The people we have left to run the show are incompetent.
It appears some people here just bent arguing for the sake of it. Debate pros and cons of exporting maize rather than who opened mouth the loudest. If you sharp you can tell that it’s just a matter of time before the official lift of the export ban. The economy needs it for now, stocks are going to waste in rural areas.
And people may starve after they realise the maize they exported was what we needed due to the failures in delivery of farming inputs. Then we will have to import maize at quadruple the cost of what we made exporting…..I mean what they made exporting it. And where is the provision to accomodate the domestic market as well as the export market. Then as things go the price of mealie meal will also double because the reserves jave gone abroad. This should have been planned minimum two seasons ago…not off the cuff. …you can’t expect a decent percentage of GDP on an unplanned and badly executed whim to truly be worth while and really “affect the economy”. This may potentially cause starvation.
please ban export of maize and maize products ! let zambian enjoy floor price of mealiea meal!!!
With government controls on purchase price which does not match production costs farmers are better off finding markets that will pay them handsomely for their produce. After all isn’t Zambia a free market economy? Farmers fear that with the disastrous farming season that saw confusion reign in distribution of farming inputs whatever harvest they produce will be bought by government for peanuts thus the need for export.