Serenje Town Council Chairperson has disputed the August Zamstats report that indicates that a tray of eggs in serenje district is going at K120.
Speaking in an exclusive interview with the Zambian Business Times – ZBT Serenje Council Chairperson Staivous Mulumba disclosed that there is no hike in egg prices in the district as there are no traders who are selling eggs at k120 per tray.
“According to the current information on the ground, there is no one who is selling a tray of eggs at K120, I am just from asking some of the traders at the market and the majority of them are currently selling the eggs at K80 and not K120.” he stated.
Meanwhile, the Council Chairperson has attributed the K80 per tray in the district to the cost cost of doing business.
“One of the contributing factors is about the cost of feed, as well as the other issue is that in serenje we do not have enough poultry farmers who are into layers ,” he alluded.
Mulumba further explained that the other factor that is contributing is that most traders normally order their eggs from Lusaka there by pushing out the retail price because of the price at which they are ordering the eggs and the high transportation costs.
