Thu, 24 Aug 2017 13:07:49 +0000 By Bennie Mundando THE Food Reserve Agency (FRA) insistency on maintaining the K60 maize market price clearly demonstrates how farmers are being swindled in the worst conceivable way, by a Government institution, the Zambia National Farmers’ Union (ZNFU) has said. And ZNFU has again appealed to farmers never to sell a single grain of maize to the FRA but exercise patience and only sell to other buyers once the prices became profitable as doing so will be as good as offering their produce for free. ZNFU president Jervis Zimba said the FRA was pegging the price of maize below the cost of production when it is supposed to balance the prices, both for mealie meal and maize production and charged that farmers that have supplied maize to the agency had done so at their own risk as it had proved to be a briefcase buyer and not a Government agency. Mr. Zimba alleged that the FRA this […]
