Dear Editor,THE farmers are in windfall. This follows the Food Reserve Agency’s announcement of the price of maize and other crops for the 2020/2021 farming season. The announcement was made on Monday May 31, 2021.FRA announced that it will buy maize at K150 per 50kg bag, soya beans at K500 per 50kg bag and paddy rice at K200 per 40kg bag. The increase in the price of these crops will translate into more money in pockets of farmers.However, farming is business and as such, the reasonable price of the crops during this year’s marketing season will motivate the farmers to grow more crops in this year’s farming season.If this is not good enough, the increased price of the crops announced by the FRA will ultimately benefit the farmers who obtained the agricultural inputs from the Farming Input Support Programme (FISP).The farmers have in the recent past bemoaned high cost of fertiliser and seeds. The high […]
MORE MONEY IN FARMERS’ POCKETS
