BY KETRA KALUNGACRAFTY farmers are killing Solar Miling Plants whose performance has reduced to 50 percent.Solar milling plants are struggling because of lack of appreciation of the concept by the small scale farmers, Zambia Cooperative Federation-ZCF has said.ZCF director general, James Chirwa said that the small-scale farmers as beneficiaries of the milling plants through the cooperatives have opted to sell their maize which they are supposed to use for mealie meal production through the Solar Milling Plants.He explained in an interview with the Daily Nation that the farmers have been selling their maize expecting the government to buy the maize for the mealie meal production through ZCF.The ZCF boss said he is at pains to see beneficiaries opting to sell all their maize which if used to produce mealie-meal would benefit them three times more than selling maize.“Zambians are slowly drifting into being very dependent in terms of their approach to issues. People are thinking […]
CRAFTY FARMERS KILLING MILLING PLANT
