Friday, March 29, 2024

Solwezi millers urged to help curb mealie meal shortage

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Solwezi District Commissioner Rosemary Kamalonga has challenged millers in the district to only supply mealie meal to Solwezi residents in order to curb the alleged artificial shortage of the commodity in the area.

Ms. Kamalonga said supplying mealie meal to the local people is much cheaper as it cuts down on transport costs and cushions the high prices of the maize meal currently prevailing.

She however expressed sadness that people were queuing up and spending the whole day at APG milling company just to buy mealie meal when they have retail shops near their homes.

Ms. Kamalonga said this when she visited APG milling after seeing a long queue of people at the company.

And a Solwezi resident, Mercy Kiliboye complained that the milling company seemed to be paying more attention to customers buying mealie meal at wholesale price than those queueing to buy the commodity at the retail price.

Meanwhile, a Kalumbila residents, Naomi Kalelemba has appealed to millers in Kalumbila district to reduce the mealie meal prices.

8 COMMENTS

  1. When is a shortage “artificial” and when is it “genuine”? Can some self proclaimed economists on this forum explain please …

  2. GRZ should just buy 1 million tonnes of yellow maize from the USA and sell yellow maize meal on the Zambia market and export some to niebouring countries.

    This will eliviate suffering and GRZ can make some money as well……

  3. If there is demand and short supply , importing yellow maize to sell on by GRZ makes perfect bussiness and social sense if they can sell and make some money and at the same time alleviate suffering of the people……

  4. But government said they were having enough stock of maize last time HH told them not to sale maize out side the country i remember the maize gate Scandal in Malawi.

  5. As I said above , if GRZ is not profiteering from this high demand high prices , let GRZ import and sell yellow maize on the Zambian market and neighbouring markets.

    IMO importing maize to meal in Zambia makes good socio economic sense for GRZ

    Can some patriotic Zambians tell us why this can not work or is a bad plan ?

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