Residents of Chiengi District are paying nearly twice as much for basic commodities as their urban counterparts due to a poor road network that inflates transport costs. According to the Zambia Statistics Agency (ZamStats), a 2.5-litre of cooking oil sells for as high as K190 in Chiengi, a stark contrast to the K120 price tag in Lusaka. Speaking in an exclusive interview with the Zambian Business Times – ZBT, Wages Mumba, the District Agriculture Coordinator (DACO) for Chiengi, attributed this to the poor condition of the… Read the details in the weekly ZBT edition 25 August 2025!, Get your copy via the link https://zambianbusinesstimes.com/subscribe_to_zambian…/
