Tue, 07 Nov 2017 12:23:16 +0000 By Chite Mtonga GOVERNMENT should give FRA a marketing mandate that goes beyond national food security to link farmers to markets both domestic and international to avoid wastage of excess maize not bought by FRA, civil society for poverty reduction executive director Patrick Nshindano has said. Mr Nshindano said that Government should stretch the mandate of the FRA to include the sourcing of maize markets both locally and internationally. He told the Daily Nation that the move would not only motivate farmers to grow the crop but also give them a better retain on their produce. “The Agriculture market in Zambia has not grown to enable farmers to easily find markets for their maize in the private sector, especially small scale farmers who do not even have the capacity to move their crops from one point to the other and as a result will be seeing the excess maize […]
