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‘Cooking Oil Prices To Drop’
GOVERNMENT has come up with intervention measures aimed at reducing the price of cooking oil, flour and mealie-meal.
Special assistant to the President for press and public relations Amos Chanda told journalists here yesterday that Minister of Agriculture Given Lubinda will be making some policy statements over skyrocketing prices of cooking oil, flour and mealie-meal.
“The Minister of Agriculture will be making some policy statements aimed at reducing prices of flour, cooking oil and mealie-meal,” Mr Chanda said.
He said 21 percent reduction in the farmer input support programme will be reversed to promote maize production.
He said President Lungu remains committed to improving the living standards of Zambians.
He said Government will ensure prices of essential commodities are reduced to make them avoidable.
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on November 7, 2015. Filed under LATEST NEWS.
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kakolwe
November 7, 2015 at 6:04 am
SUBSIDIZE production and not consumption!!
Chapwa!
Wanyafye Choir feat. Slapp F
November 7, 2015 at 12:08 pm
E sense iyo bakaamba.
Subsidizing consumption is the same as putting Harvey tiles on a Jeke compound kamudada built on a weak foundation. Deal with the problems, not the symptoms.
mj banda
November 7, 2015 at 6:30 am
Anyway let them control the prices cos people are taking advantage of people
hockley
November 7, 2015 at 6:46 am
we gonna appreciate that..
umuntu ni lungu.
November 7, 2015 at 7:38 am
you will do that but business houses are not being honest. why increasing the price of things bought when dollar was at k7? Miller buy maize cheaply but look at their behaviour. KK saw it thats why govt was also a plyer in business. let the govt suspend building universities and open coperative shops to contral prices.
umuntu ni lungu.
November 7, 2015 at 7:46 am
Ministry of health is very mean with their services yet we are in a the same libral economy. Minisyry of comercy and finance put your houses in order. The govt will do its part but business men will export those products of still sell at a high price. lets find a way of helping a common man even by law.
muna
November 7, 2015 at 8:03 am
obviously local is laka
ba guy
November 7, 2015 at 9:38 am
ok
Musi mwape
November 7, 2015 at 9:52 am
Wonderful honourable lubinda
kajob
November 7, 2015 at 9:53 am
good move ba government I support you just kolopa every thing.
Goodz
November 7, 2015 at 10:56 am
Katwishi mayo
michelo
November 7, 2015 at 11:00 am
That gonna be gud when they do it.
Fantasy
November 7, 2015 at 11:40 am
Really? P,f Government will reduce prices? where wer they when prices were going up,
Wanyafye Choir feat. Slapp F
November 7, 2015 at 12:17 pm
If they sorted out the basics, they can reduce prices.
1. Grow sunflower, wheat and maize the whole year – Zambia has a lot of water for flood irrigation.
2. Subsidize production and offer rebates to exporters of agric products etc
3. Provide processing facilities for fruit like mangoes, guavas, avocado. These are readily available in our compounds but we are so careless we now import pure juice from Egypt, a country with one river. Same applies to fresh fish, tomatoes and beans.
4. Control animal diseases so that we can export beef, goats, pork. Botswana buys bran from Zambia and exports beef.
Are we serious?
List is endless bro. Ours is a case of A FOOL AND HIS RESOURCES.
Ba pf founders
November 7, 2015 at 2:04 pm
Pipo can sing….every blogger looks luks like lost. Ho we ye government dis oh thankyou. Dis government is a total mess chapwa ! Wat r u trying to back? Wich policy ba stiopet ?
shikulu
November 7, 2015 at 2:27 pm
the govrnment banned the inpotation of cooking oil some time back. now that price for cooking oil has gone up, can they alow the inportation.
onyx power
November 7, 2015 at 3:01 pm
They banned importations to promote local products and help them to even start exporting, now they start abusing locals because of the monopoly they are enjoying. Foolishness at best indeed.
takolinyenga
November 7, 2015 at 3:24 pm
what is happening opposition price hike can people hate govt we know all the tricks 2016 end of useless opposition viva fdd
takolinyenga
November 7, 2015 at 3:28 pm
maz is biased to upnd they cry saying batu bida ma voti nga ba luza 2016 yasika tulabatondezya
christabel
November 7, 2015 at 8:09 pm
It will be better
springer
November 7, 2015 at 10:37 pm
it will be a miracle if the priceses drop wit this govt
BBC
November 8, 2015 at 6:30 am
Good morning. Mr President be strong on this one, only Zambian are destroying their market of pure ZED products which do not even have no copper prices neither Exchange effected. ALL TRICKS ARE KNOWN WILL NEVER HURT THE GOVERNMENT OR THE PRESIDENT. ZAMBIAN BUSINESS MEN AND WOMEN CHANGE THE WAY YOU ARE DOING BUSINESS. HOW ARE YOUR FRIENDS GOING TO SURVIVAL WHEN THEY ARE KICKED FROM THE MINES. HELP YOUR NATION
baron mulenga
November 8, 2015 at 9:11 am
That’s great but they have to go round and make sure that each and every seller has followed the price, in short am saying they’ve to form a price control board that will take care on this issue.
Icon
November 8, 2015 at 9:50 am
Instead of reducing Millie meal prices they are talking of cooking oil. Can people eat cooking oil? And small brains are busy praising ati good move ba government. You guys think big, open your eyes before you praise nechakumilya.
New Educated Zambia©❤√
November 8, 2015 at 10:35 am
Is this how pathetic the pf campaign has turned. So cooking oil reduced and yet people can’t afford food and have no power to cook. Ama setting ba pf. Can you stop messing with people’s lives
chuswe
November 8, 2015 at 10:43 am
Please make it fast we will appreciate people ar suffering so much!
MCCM
November 8, 2015 at 1:37 pm
@icon pliz lundeniko utumano twenu over what u have,incase u do not know,mealie meal is cheaper than cooking oil,u cant enjoy yo meal without cooking oil.Read properly what has been said,mealie meal is included also.
jojo
November 8, 2015 at 6:00 pm
Eyo yena ni zimia oppsition
jebo
November 8, 2015 at 8:47 pm
or it ll b just promise after promises like the imported power which we are still waiting up to now. or it went direct to state house.
Cholwe
November 8, 2015 at 9:12 pm
Speed up the move.
zambian
November 8, 2015 at 10:17 pm
control measures need to be out in place to control prices of essential commodities.its sad that the opposition are happy wen pipo are suffering,just thinking about votes which they will not even get,some are even working with millers to hike meali meal prices so that pipo revolt against the govrt.we all know who will vote for a certain party and there reasons,poverty has no respect of politics.
zambian
November 8, 2015 at 10:19 pm
to be put in place
jebo
November 8, 2015 at 11:06 pm
@zambian u cant force sum1 to do sumthing u want or he sh ll mess it. it must b a voloteer his ha wish. u ar the sam pipo who forced him even if he told u that am no vision person, we ar all in zambia wat u ar going thru is the sam to me, unless u ar a CADRE ba zambian. waufwa.
Amake Mwana
November 9, 2015 at 8:34 am
What policy? Tell us.
James
November 9, 2015 at 11:46 am
Fellow zambians….when do we stop being naive, the costs of production have gone up, cost of oilseed, has gone up, as a country we still need to import in crude form or refined form, almost 60% cooking oil, i am not a expert but i think if the dollar goes up the cost of importing anything should go up, just saying, i could be wrong…..also for farmers, fertilisers, pesticides,seed etc is dollar based, things are going to get tough…..the only way is to firstly remove VAT on cooking oil like some of our neighbors,as it is essential, also open up importation of oil…but after remving VAT, as there is a big scam of duty and VAT evasion at the borders, with big bwanas apparently involved……..
reuberg
November 9, 2015 at 9:29 pm
akubombeni bane, not ukulalandafye