PRESIDENT Hakainde Hichilema says various external forces have resulted in pressure on the country’s food basket. And President Hichilema says people must not always look at life from a point of competition but from a complementary perspective. Speaking when he officiated at the launch of the 2023 Wheat Harvest season in Mpongwe District, Thursday, President Hichilema said pressure was mounting on the food basket because of external forces and this was creating a problem. “Because of the points you raised, factors of distortion in the global supply chain situation, the war in Ukraine, its impact on the higher cost of price on fertiliser, higher price of fuel, there is pressure on the food basket in our own country, in the...

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