Tue, 20 Feb 2018 09:28:12 +0000 …millers forcing Govt to release FRA maize by keeping mealie meal prices high By BUUMBA CHIMBULU MILLERS are blackmailing government to make a political decision to release maize from the Food Reserve Agency (FRA) by deliberately keeping mealie meal prices high while refusing to buy the crop from farmers, Zambia National Farmers Union (ZNFU) president Jarvis Zimba has charged. Mr Zimba told the Daily Nation in an interview yesterday that it would be suicidal for government to release FRA maize now without a crop forecast for the next season. He revealed that there was no maize shortage in the country, “there is plenty of maize, but millers who did not buy forward must now pay more to cover the cost of fumigation, storage and related costs.” Consumers, he said, should appreciate the effort farmers were making to feed the nation, “what is a K5 or K10 increase when people spend […]
Blackmail
