The price of maize has shot-up by 30 percent in Mungwi District of the Northern Province.
This is according to a survey conducted by the National Agricultural Information Services (NAIS) at Mungwi open market this morning.
The survey indicates that a 5 Kilogram bag of maize is now fetching K5,000 from the previous K3,500.
Random interviews with traders at Mungwi market indicate that the price increase has been attributed to increases from the source.
A trader, Miss Bernadette Mutale says a 5 kilogramme tin of maize popularly called ‘meda’ is selling at K5,000 while millet is pegged at K4 500 and cassava chips are going at K2 500 per meda.
Miss Mutale says middlemen are selling a 5 kilogramme tin of maize at K4 000
She says the price of maize is dictated by the availability of the commodity at the market and depending on supply and demand, the price may once again go up.
And a senior Government official has challenged the Citizens’ Economic Empowerment Committee in Mungwi District of Northern Province to map-out strategies on how best citizens in the area can be helped to access the empowerment funds.
Mungwi District Commissioner Fanwell Bwembya made the challenge when he met members of the citizens’ economic empowerment committee in his office today.
Mr. Bwembya was quick to point out that the district has not received any application from the target beneficiaries since the funds were set-up in the province this year.
He said however that there was a public outcry that the conditions set for the empowerment are too rigid and most people feel that they would be left out.
Mr. Bwembya says there is need for the citizens’ empowerment committee in the district to work-out strategies which should aim at helping the marginalized members of the society to benefit from the fund.
DC Bewmbya says the citizen’s economic empowerment committee is charged with the responsibility of creating synergies with the citizens’ economic empowerment commission (CEEC) by ensuring that funds were disbursed to beneficiaries.
He said other roles include creating awareness to the general public on the funds and making sure that linkages between existing government structures and CEEC programme were re-enforced.
ENDS/S/PK/ZANIS.
Abantubesu balafwa kunsala and this govt is busy distrbuting sugar and bribing
CAMPAIGN STRATEGYY…WIL REDUCE IN NO TIME…
Hon RB will sort it out…………………mukalila muchitongalozi then muzalila muchilozitonga hon RB moves into state house on 03/11/08
nobody can stop us now
you lazy chaps shall die, learn to work hard thus why you need wealth makers like HH. Try sata or RB and perish
yeah pipo if you dont for HH you will all perish coz these leaders (RB &Sata)have no momey, so i will puting the money in their back pockets…….. which we dont want ofcourse)))))))))) think about it; even tho i’m not tonga; HH has money so he will the country’s money for its own benefit not puting in his back porket coz its already full……. actually heavier than his own head.