GOVERNMENT must ensure that the price of maize supersedes production costs and efforts expended by farmers to produce the crop, farmers in Chipashi area of Kamfinsa constituency in Kitwe have saidThe farmers, led by Lozina Muchima , Joyce Muchimba and Ethel Mutinta said farming could be a very lucrative business if Government motivated the farmers with various incentives and a good floor price of maize.Ms Muchimba said in an interview in an interview with the Daily Nation in Chipashi area that the current price of maize was not motivating, hence farmers were merely growing the crop because it was a staple food Ms Muchimba and her colleagues, who are single parents, proposed that a 50 kilogramme bag of maize should fetch more than the current floor price of K110.“We spend a lot of efforts and money to grow maize up to the time it is ready for harvest and so, as farmers, we would like […]
KAMFINSA FARMERS WANT MORE INCENTIVES
