THE country’s bakers are able to meet the daily bread demand of one million loaves a day as they have enough capacity to do so, the bakers’ association has said.
Stephen Chadenga OWN CORRESPONDENT
National Bakers’ Association of Zimbabwe president Givemore Mesoemvura told journalists that bakers were no longer concerned about the supply of wheat as it was coming in abundance from overseas markets.
Mesoemvura said the association’s installed capacity was 1,8 million loaves of bread per day, against the present demand of one million.
“There is enough capacity for us to supply even if the whole country works up tomorrow and says each and every family is going to be needing bread, we can supply,” Mesoemvura told journalists on the sidelines of a trade measures conference in Gweru on Wednesday.
“Flour is no longer an issue now and as you are aware Zimbabwe is not producing enough wheat at the moment,” he said.
“All the wheat that we are using for baking bread is being imported from Brazil, the Americas and Australia.”
In the past, bakers raised concern over the issue of flour inputs, something Mesoemvura said was a thing of the past.
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“We have contacts now,” he said.
“There can never be, in the foreseeable future, shortages of raw materials like what happened in the past.”
Zimbabwe presently has more than 257 operational bakers, with Lobel’s and Bakers’ Inn being the biggest two.
