The Zambia Consumers Association (ZACA) has urged government to work on a modality of reducing the prices of Liquified Petroleum Gas, in a bid to drive the citizenry from overdependence on charcoal which has overly become expensive as well.
Charcoal remains a lifeline for many Zambian households, especially among low-income earners who rely on it as their primary source of cooking energy. With frequent load shedding and the high cost of alternative energy sources like liquefied petroleum gas, charcoal use has remained widespread across both urban and rural areas. A 50kg bag of charcoal on the open market is currently trading at….Read the details in the weekly ZBT edition 25 August 2025!, Get your copy via the link https://zambianbusinesstimes.com/subscribe_to_zambian…/
