Zimbabwe Blocks Bread Price Increase

The government and other stakeholders have agreed on maintaining the price of bread, amid claims by bakers of high costs of wheat and flour, because it will push up inflation.
  • Zimbabwe:   Bread Price Stays at U.S.$1

    The Herald, 12 September 2012

    STAKEHOLDERS in the bread cluster have agreed to maintain the price of bread at US$1 under measures also meant to ensure viability of bakers and millers. Bakers had proposed to… Read more »

Street market: Bakers in Zimbabwe want a loaf to cost U.S.$1,20, up from U.S.$1.

  • Zimbabwe:   Bread Price Increase Blocked

    The Herald, 28 August 2012

    GOVERNMENT will not allow the proposed increase in the price of bread because it will push up inflation, Finance Minister Tendai Biti has said. Read more »

  • Zimbabwe:   Millers Rule Out Flour Shortages

    The Herald, 2 July 2012

    THE proposed reintroduction of duty on imported wheat flour will not result in flour shortages, the Grain Millers' Association of Zimbabwe chairman Mr Tafadzwa Musarara has said,… Read more »

  • Zimbabwe:   Flour Imports Now a Threat to Local Industry - Grain Millers

    Zimbabwe Independent, 28 June 2012

    GRAIN Millers Association of Zimbabwe (GMAZ) is lobbying government to review customs duty on imported wheat flour upwards in order to protect local wheat agro processing, farming… Read more »

  • Zimbabwe:   Wheat Growers Abandon Crop

    The Herald, 11 May 2012

    MOST traditional wheat growers this season abandoned the crop citing a host of challenges, chief among them prolonged power cuts and poor access to finance. The Herald established… Read more »

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