Tue, 27 Jun 2017 13:08:51 +0000 BY MAILESI BANDA GRAIN traders should stop using small scale farmers to push their agenda of refusing to pay the 10 percent tax on the export of maize, Zambia Cooperatives Federation, (ZCF) Director General James Chirwa has advised. Mr. Chirwa said the traders were the only ones benefiting from the export of maize, adding that the small scale farmers sold their grain locally. Speaking in an interview with the Daily Nation, Mr Chirwa said claims by the grain traders that the 10 percent was affecting the small scale farmers were unfounded. “The people exporting maize across the border are not small scale farmers but traders who buy the maize from small scale farmers at a give-away price and sell it on the export market,’’ he said. He stated that the traders were making more money on the export market than the producers. Mr Chirwa challenged the traders to be […]
