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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
Not again. am not even sure if LT will post my comment!
With mealie meal and fuel prices going up,I will not vote for MMD’s Rupia Banda or UPND’s Hakaivotela Humwine but Michael Chilufya Sata.Viva PF Viva Sata,Mubwato emotuli.
sharp you are talking my friend, viva pf. more mony in your pockets and more food with less price.
VOTE FOR PF AND ENJOY BETTER LIFE,AFFORDABLE THINGS AND BEST ECONOMICAL POLICES
Atu Vote Sata basa things are not so good at home
MWEBANTU NIPA BWATOOOO BABY C ULIKWISA DO YOU HAVE ENOUGH TO EAT.
Naimwe ba Sata stop promising us a 90 day turn around of the Country’s economy and governance. Just be realistic! Anyway we will still vote for you again and hope this time you won’t be dribbled
Sad looking picture.
We can now see that RB is telling us lies. Just few days ago, he spoke of reduducing fuel prices. We know that the economy of any given nation is mostly dependant on fuel price, meaning any rise in fuel has an adverse repurcation on production thereby giving rise to prices of commodities including mealie meal. If bunga has gone up again, its likely that fuel is not going down but the opposite. Lets be careful zambians, these facts have a lot to do with our pockets unless you are at an orphanage.
Furthermore, our brothers and sisters at the village or in rural areas do not see these facts because they are at a subsistance level and believe that free sugar or chitenge is good governance as these items are not easily obtainable. Urban guys its the opposite. They spend their hard earned plus heavily taxed incomes on the items and therefore reject RB for the benefit of all.
ili bad and my salary is still the same, i need money in my pocket.this is serious people
You know what abantu bakumishi nshishibe ngabakavotela Pa bwato coz of RB donations. How can we advise them to vote for Sata? They donot buy ubunga, masubsistence farmers, please SAta go to where they did not vote for you.
People we cant be voting for the same party which is segregating us and increasing their salaries on tax payers money, this is too much imwee.. Lets try to change vote pabwatoo and see what comes up. Even if RB is not for the increase its one way of campaigning once he gets there he will sign the increase in salaries cant you see the logic. yaba
The begining of long suffering with the Mukudya Mweka Daddy (MMD) Aya ni mabvuto.
UPND will deal with all these..
Viva HH
Elo daddy asuna vikulu … have to be tough in these times.
things will get better soon.nipabwatofye
Sata had his chance, viva HH
very shamefull indeed. can’t understand the economics behind this. bumper harvest and price equilibrium ?????
ala mwandi twachula these prices
Rupiah Banda = High Prices
Michael Sata = Low Prices
VIVA PACHIBWATO!!!!!
tony
we need to support small scale farmers and boost encourage people to do even just a bi of farming.
I suppose MMD will now be saying “it’s a good sign, it is because of our good policies”. Like Daka with his cement – how can he say it’s a good thing that there’s a shortage of cement? Because of good policies? Ala… VIVA SATA
RB looks like a chimpanzee
Is like dem want we fi commit robbery.
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