By Dr Parkie Mbozi
GOVERNMENT through the Food Reserve Agency (FRA) has increased the maize purchase price for a 50kg bag from K110 to K150. The FRA has also fixed the price of a 50kg bag of soya beans at K500 and paddy rice at K200 for a 40kg bag. Further, FRA says will this year buy between 500, 000 and 1,000,000 tonnes of maize, representing only about 20 – 30% of the predicted harvest.
With the United States dollar trending at about K23, the price of a bag of maize is now USD 6.52. Also, with the bag of D compound fertilizer selling at about K650, a farmer requires to sell four plus bags to buy one bag of fertilizer. The viability of this dynamic is a discussion for another day. My discussion for today is about the façade of seemingly increasing the reward to the farmer at a time when the Kwacha has lost its value. The table below demonstrates that actually even at K65 a bag in 2017 and K110 in 2019 the farmer was better off than today. So although the farmer maybe smiling
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What happened to Flip from Street Outlaws?
TYLER “Flip” Priddy starred in the Discovery reality series “Street Outlaws”.
Street Outlaws premiered on the Discovery Channel in 2013 and followed a group of street racers including Priddy, who died in 2013 at the age of 31.
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Who is Taylor’s “flip” trophy?
Flip was born in Chickasha, Oklahoma, the home of Street Outlaws.
When they were children, he met the car and racing enthusiast Justin “Great Chief” Shearer.
They used to ride bicycles to watch Drag racing When I was young.
Flip appeared in Street Outlaws’ first season with Big Chief in 2013, where he continued to love street racing.
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