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K70 Maize Floor Price Is Ridiculously Too Low- Milupi
The opposition Alliance for Development and Democracy (ADD) has observed that the announced K70 floor price for maize for this year’s crop marketing season is ridiculously too low.
The ADD says this is because it is way below the production cost of a 50Kg bag of maize.
ADD President Charles Milupi notes that this year’s floor price for maize actually kills all farmers whether at commercial or small scale level.
Mr. Milupi is concerned that government has decided to set the floor price for maize at K70 per 50kg bag of maize when the prices of fuel, equipment, chemicals, fertilize and labour have all gone up.
He has told Qfm News by telephone it is clear that a rise in the price of these elements have compounded the production cost of producing a 50Kg bag of maize.
Mr. Milupi has thus challenged anyone in the country to justify that they can produce a 50Kg bag of maize at US$9 which is equivalent to the floor price of maize government has announced.
He is of the view that the minimum cost for producing a 50kg bag of maize, given the production cost, should be not less than US$15.
The ADD president has since advised government to begin to different between making mealie meal cheap and the business of producing maize.
He is suggesting that farmers must recoup what they have put in so that profits can enable them to produce for the next farming season and therefore government must not make farmers subsides the price of mealie meal by subjecting them to a low floor price.
Mr. Milupi states if government wants to make mealie meal cheap in Zambia it should do so by introducing subsidies.
Posted by
Onyx power @vampiro
August 16, 2015 at 8:52 am
All agri inputs comes with subsidies so what are you talking about one man party leader.
New Educated Zambia©❤√
August 16, 2015 at 8:56 am
A good example of pf failure and why majority of you will not be voting these clowns next year. You cannot fatten a pig on its sale day. As elections approach pf is trying all sorts to buy people support albeit with failed economic strategy. Vote upnd
jkms
August 16, 2015 at 9:14 am
president Milupi staying in Lusaka does not help this nation. Those u call farmer are even selling maize at cheaper price than that metioned be government. Please leader like Milupi let us give constructive contribution
mj banda
August 16, 2015 at 9:15 am
Iwe ka Milupi, fuel prices ll come down shortly.
umurebel
August 16, 2015 at 9:40 am
these pf dogs are a good example of failures
jabi
August 17, 2015 at 7:35 am
Chikala waumfwa
ISIL
August 16, 2015 at 9:40 am
for sure nimbwa
mj banda
August 16, 2015 at 2:40 pm
you forget that the higher the maize the more you ll sleep hungry
jabi
August 17, 2015 at 7:37 am
Wembwa niwebo with your friend umureb chikala
twe
August 16, 2015 at 2:39 pm
Keep dreaming bwana milupi why not ask GBM how much he is buying maize in kasama ask him K50 per 52kg and you say K70 is low
Truth Hates
August 16, 2015 at 3:54 pm
Milipi is just hallucinating. The private traders are buying maize as cheap as K50 per 60kg. GRZ buys at 70 per 50kg Milipi cries, what a bunch of useless opposition.
blackbull
August 16, 2015 at 4:22 pm
but ba pf ni fikopa sana the buying of maize at k50 is because govt s failure to announce the floor prize in time. that is why our president hh says prizes will be announced before you start farming for you to decide which crop you should produce for profit . simple like that, mwe finangwa
New Educated Zambia©❤√
August 16, 2015 at 4:24 pm
Bawuze Bawuze ngosi
New Educated Zambia©❤√
August 16, 2015 at 4:24 pm
Tell them
Hello Haters
August 16, 2015 at 8:17 pm
@black bull ain’t that beautiful? Knowing the profit you will reap before you put the seed in the ground.
Onyx power @vampiro
August 17, 2015 at 1:31 am
What prizes …@black bull.If pf is dull the you are their product . kikikik ati prizes
Umulumbwana
August 16, 2015 at 7:32 pm
The Lord abhors dishonest scales, but accurate weights are His delight. Proverbs 11:1
Umulumbwana
August 16, 2015 at 7:47 pm
A fool says in his heart there is no God. Psalm 14:1
jabi
August 17, 2015 at 7:33 am
Chikala cho
yht
August 17, 2015 at 7:35 pm
go sale to higher bidder then
pink toe
August 18, 2015 at 2:41 pm
When the price is higher, the same Milupi who seems to have a hinged tong, shall open up and say meal price is too high. Please go into farming and set your own price. You are not the farmer’s spokes person nor agent. All you do is find something to talk about even when your comments make NO sense. Expecting the farmers to give you a vote?