Wed, 26 Oct 2016 09:56:48 +0000 THE Ministry of Finance has released K125 million to the Ministry of Agriculture to pay arrears being owed to the farmers by the Food Reserve Agency (FRA). And the State has promised to release another K125 to K200 million next week to the farmers so that government only remains with a balance of about K76 million. Ms Siliya announced the release of the K125 million for farmers when she interacted with journalists at Parliament yesterday. Ms Siliya said Government bought a total 279 348 metric tons of maize through the FRA from the farmer national wide during the last marketing season. She said FRA was initially owing farmers K474 million and that government had paid about K73.1 million leaving a debt of K401 million. Ms Siliya assured the nation and the famers in particular that immediately the remaining K125 million would be released FRA would immediately start paying the […]
