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By Dr Parkie Mbozi
A reader asked me to describe, in a few words, what is going on in our country regarding the Covid 19 campaign. I will answer by reciting some of the adages I used in my past writings: 1.
The chickens have come home to roost; 2.
We are reaping what we sowed.
Zambia is today the epicentre of Covid 19. We have the highest and most rapidly increasing cases among all our eight neighbours and second only to South Africa in the SADC region. Our official positivity rate, amid low testing, stands way higher than most countries world-wide, at over 30%. And yet, at less than 0.1% (precisely
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