Oil processing companies are in negotiations with Government for them to buy soya beans at import parity price of $400 per tonne in a bid to maintain the price of cooking oil and other related products at levels affordable to consumers.
This comes after Government increased soya bean producer price to $780 per tonne from $610, a move some analysts see as a catalyst for price increase in the cooking oil sub-sector.
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