Zimbabwe: Maize price rises by 680 per cent

The massive hike of prices of maize by the Zimbabwean government was a far from the expectation of poor Zimbabweans. Rugare Gumbo, the agriculture minister, spilled the beans that the government increased the country’s staple food by 680 per cent. The agriculture minister said the government had taken the decision was to back a 570 per cent increase of the producer price of maize awarded to farmers to encourage food production.