Consumers pay more for maize flour
PHOTO | FILE A customer samples out maize flour at a supermarket in Nairobi. Millers have raised the cost of maize flour by 5 per cent following an increase in the price of the raw material.
What you need to know:
- The retail price of a 2 kilogramme packet of maize flour stands at Sh115 up from Sh110 last month even as the cost of food continues to soar which may have an impact on the country’s inflation.
Millers have raised the cost of maize flour by 5 per cent following an increase in the price of the raw material. Firms are now paying 10 per cent more for a 90 kilogramme bag of the staple translating to Sh3,200 from Sh2,900 last month.
Consumers will thus have to bear the extra cost even as millers warn of dwindling maize stocks. “Millers are hardly getting enough stocks and all that we get ends up in the machines,” said Cereal Millers Association chairman Diamond Lalji on phone yesterday.
The retail price of a 2 kilogramme packet of maize flour stands at Sh115 up from Sh110 last month even as the cost of food continues to soar which may have an impact on the country’s inflation.
The rates resumed an upward trend after declining from January. Last month, the figure rose to 6.41 per cent from 6.27 per cent in March due to a 1.6 per cent jump in the cost of food and non-alcoholic drinks.
