Maize prices continue to increase in the country, with latest prices observed in Blantyre Monday at about K300 per kilogramme or K15,000 per 50 kg bag as food scarcity hit a climax.<\/p>\n
A visit to markets in Nancholi, Baluti, Zingwangwa, Ndirande and Chirimba in Blantyre revealed that vendors had supplies of the grain but that prices had now gone out of the roof.<\/p>\n
The development comes at a time when Admarc depots remain empty, despite the corporation assuring Malawians that it has plenty of the grain.<\/p>\n
The sharp surge in maize prices has also pushed up the price of processed cream of maize or mealy meal.<\/p>\n
A half kg pack of processed maize floor, popularly known as \u2018walkman\u2019 was selling at K350 at Mabuka in Mulanje.<\/p>\n
Vendors told The Dai ly Times <\/em>that they are sourcing the commodity from across the borders, hence the extremely high prices.<\/p>\n With many households still feeling the aftereffects of January, many low income families have resorted to buying small portions of the grain.<\/p>\n Admarc is selling the grain at a subsidised price of K110 per kg but the grain is being rationed at only 20kg per person.<\/p>\n Admarc chief executive officer, Foster Mulumbe, told Times Television <\/em>recently that his corporation has enough maize stocks to feed Malawians up to the start of the harvest season.<\/p>\n Mulumbe promised available that Admarc will make the grain to all its depots to enable Malawians access the commodity at affordable prices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Maize prices continue to increase in the country, with latest prices observed in Blantyre Monday at about K300 per kilogramme or K15,000 per 50 kg bag as food scarcity hit a climax. A visit to markets in Nancholi, Baluti, Zingwangwa, Ndirande and Chirimba in Blantyre revealed that vendors had supplies of the grain but that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":18041,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18037"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18042,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18037\/revisions\/18042"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}