Thu, 02 Mar 2017 10:34:48 +0000 …traders demand to export surplus as they await new crop By Bennie Mundando The government should immediately allow the export of up to 320,000 metric tonnes of maize and mealie meal to avoid a major maize storage crisis. Stakeholders who met recently warned that a storage crisis was looming in the maize industry caused by unfavourable maize marketing conditions and Government must allow the export of maize and mealie meal if the problem is to be addressed, stakeholders in the agriculture sector have warned. The stakeholders have also called for the cancellation of the tripartite maize arrangement between the Grain Traders Association of Zambia (GTAZ), Millers Association of Zambia (MAZ) and the Food Reserve Agency (FRA) as it had allegedly failed to achieve the intended objectives. In a communique jointly signed by the Zambian National Farmers’ Union (ZNFU), MAZ and GTAZ addressed to Agriculture Minister Dora Siliya dated […]
