POULTRY Association of Zambia (PAZ) national chairperson Veronica Machungwa says the country’s economic instability is greatly contributing to the continued increase in the prices of meat products such as chicken. In an interview, Tuesday, Machungwa observed that the price of chicken had gone crazy and people would have no option but to remove it from their food list. She said the price of day-old chicks had never gone this high up before, but explained that the industry only responds to economic performance of the country. “It’s unusual this is happening. It has never been like this before, we have never had a time when we had such a high price increase. But again, you also have to look at the...

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