Retails selling at Lutaya Market in Yei complained about the low prices practiced by local farmers cutting their profits.
An anonymous trader told Radio Easter that the local farmers sell their produce at low prices making retailers lose money because they bought the goods in stock at higher prices.Retailer Mary Tabu said her vegetables get spoiled quickly and she has to sell them at lower prices with a little profit that affects her business intensely because transport expenses are high.
She added that business is not yet stable at the new Lutaya Market because people preferred the former market of Jigomoni inside the town.
Yei Chamber of Commerce Secretary Bismarck Abdalla said the office did not impose fixed prices for retailers and wholesalers in the markets in town.
He revealed that the government did not prepare policies to fix and stabilize prices in the county.