The price of mealie meal has gone up again barely two months after another price hike.
A random check in Lusaka by ZNBC news, Wednesday, revealed that a twenty-five kilogram bag of breakfast mealie meal is now pegged at 53 thousand kwacha from 50 thousand kwacha.
Retail outlets are selling a twenty-five kilograms bag of mealie meal between 52-53-thousand kwacha.
And the Millers association of Zambia Executive Secretary, Harrison Banda, said his association will issue a comprehensive statement on the matter on Thursday.
Meanwhile the Government has increased farming inputs under the fertilizer support programme from sixty percent to seventy-five percent in the 2008/2009 season.
This means that small scale farmers will only be required to pay twenty-five percent of the market prices.
Agriculture Minister, Sarah Sayifwanda said at a media briefing that government was prompted to do so to cushion farmers from high cost of input prices.
She said government has paid input suppliers fifty percent of the value of the eighty thousand metric tonnes of fertilizer to continue with the exercise.
The minister is optimistic that the distribution of the farming inputs is expected to be completed early October, this year.
The budget for the 2008/2009 fertilizer support programme currently stands at four hundred and eighty-five billion six hundred and fifty million and four hundred thousand kwacha.( K485 650 400 000).
ZNBC
Vote for hh,no other dogs,hh seems serious
Zambia should not depend only on mealie meal, eat rice or something or bread and drink and go to bed. after that you will all see how much the price will go down
#2 do you know how much is a 50kg of rice compared to 50kg of mealie-meal? Please lets be serious! Zambians time for coupons has come back brace for yourself.Next is yellow maize and GMO for that matter!
Zambians u r at crossroads at the moment.Either you vote for change categorically hh or vote for continuity in backwardness.This is not time for oldies who belong to the archives or graves.
LT can you be serious. Look at your article again. Its misleading. It should read
‘Govt has increased farming input subsidy from 60% to 75%. But the issue at the moment is the mealie meal prices. What is govt doing about it. RB should also tell us in his campaign what he will do about the heft perks him and his colleagues awarded themselves. This will make us know where he belongs.
When UNIP was goin out of powa,the price of mealie meal was js as mad as nw,even wth coupons-TIME FOR CHANGE PIPO,LETS NOT SUFFER LIKE WE’VE COME OUT OF WAR..
RB chikwasa,upasa sugar bantu instead of insuring minimal expenditure on the basic household items.Nzelu sizi yambukila,LPM ana tenga zake,so RB-no brains
Let’s just say there’s no suitable leader this time sata that sroke was a warning sign + he reminds us of mugabe many of us who voted for him will not do it this time,HH is a MASON/CROOCK which is pretty rare for a tonga,RB we really don’t know who he really is & wat he has to offer.I think this time bantu bazayambo chita piki piki na piki doli po vota.GOD HELP US!If i was to choose between these 3 & FTJ i would go for him.Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.RB will end up wining this election am telling you this right now.
Who will help our pipo unga 50 pin sure awe mwe.
lets talk about VJ ,this man is a real bad but i can see that his days are numbered I DO AGREE 100 PER TO WHAT HH, SAYS IN THE POST THAT WOLVES HAVE REGROUPED AGAIN COZY RB IS A WEAK SOLIDER , my appeal to all zed pipo is that 30th Oct, vote wisely
53 thousand kwacha!!!!chabipa sana….how are the people going to survive in Zambia….pitty to the extended families…..i almost forgot….how are those in boarding schools surviving?awe its too much…everytime is to hear something about poverty in zambia…when will zambia improve?????even though maize is the staple food…semolina can be the alternative….
lets get used to eating other things,you will see how mealie meal price will drop down.
the country has money but aba ba nyandule they are just putting it in their pockets and forgetting the poor Zambian.
when are we going to find a leader who will do anything just for the country and not just for all his benefit.?
ba Zambia lets vote wisely,umuntu mutwe
Tatuleikuta ubwali bulechepa pantu imitengo yabunga nainina. 55pin ka 25kg endesha HH wise ubweshe ubunga kuli 15pin
Buti mwe maZambians you like ubwali too much. If somebody hasn’t eaten nshima they feel like they haven’t eaten at all.EISH
hehehe @ number 14, ubwali ni staple naimwe… hehehe.
pliz Zambianz lets vote4the right president,someone with national interest
i feel bad seen my fellow coutry men nd women suffering COZ not everyone would have that53 thosand2buy mealiemel nd sustain their families.
GOD BLESS ZAMBIA
listening to hh on qfm yesterday i have come to the conclusion that he shd wait for 2011. The guy is talking big and believes he can deliver in 3years. noway ! coz his fellow party friends will spend the first 3years lining their pockets with no or very little development. he has a vision but its too big for him to deliver alone.
After Levy departure,we now see the fruits of RB governance.U vote him in, your bring back the days of UNIP. high inflation,this is just his beggining of poor governance.Change Zambian’s for the betterment of your lives.Only now is the time.chao.
Come on people, u can’t just put everything on RB. Even b4 LPM’s demise, things like inflation where already getting out of hand because of the oil and food price rises at a global level. We should not act blind and say no one is going to take us out of the current political stalemate. we all know RB is the man for the job.
OnE LoVe
How come only Sarah Sayifwanda makes statements about agriculture issues? Why are we still having Mr. Kapita still on Ministerial payroll if he is not functional and for that matter in the same capacity as Sara? Don’t you people see that Levy dribbled you on this one? What does it mean keeping family and friends on Govt Payroll? What is RB’s stand on having two ministers in the same capacity in the same ministry? Crooks.
The rising price of a commodity like Mealie meal is just an end result among other things of the underlaying factors to what drives the commodity prices. My contribution to this topic would be to find means to reduce the fuel price.