Mon, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 By Simon Muntemba THE maize price in some areas has dropped to K35 per 50 kilogram bag forcing some opposition parties to urge government to join the planned indaba between Zambia National Farmers Union (ZNFU) and Food Reserve Agency (FRA) in an effort to sort out the low maize price. ZNFU president Jervis Zimba recently called for a high level indaba with FRA and other stake holders, to discuss and probably sort out the lowered of the floor price of maize. Rainbow Party Copperbelt youth vice-secretary, David Chishimba said that his party supported the call for an indaba because the lowered price of maize would negatively affect the next farming season as farmers will be discouraged and demoralised. He argued that the announced price of K60 was a huge blow to farmers as it was putting them at a great disadvantage due to the fact that in the last […]
