Zimbabwe: Unease Over Bid to Ban Maize Meal Imports

ORDINARY Zimbabweans have dismissed calls by the country's farmers' groups for a blanket ban on maize imports which they claim was aimed at protecting an inefficient local industry.

Poor Zimbabweans feel that competition being brought by the imported products has ensured prices of the staple food remained affordable to everyone.

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