Sat, 26 Aug 2017 10:24:57 +0000 IT is highly myopic and short term thinking for FRA Executive Director, Chola Kafwabulua, to suggest that farmers who are unhappy with the maize price should move out of the crop because this is a recipe for political instability three to four years down the line. Should this come to pass, this country will face a maize crisis within three years which will result in high mealie meal prices, which in turn will impact the political character of our country. The unseemly confrontation between the Food Reserve Agency (FRA), and the Zambia National Farmers Union ( ZNFU), over the K60 per 50kg bag maize price is symptomatic of the malaise afflicting most public institutions which fail to consult and instead announce far reaching measures which produce dire consequences. And we have said before and we wish to repeat that the K60 should have been the result of consultation between […]
