Fri, 16 Jun 2017 09:27:47 +0000 By SIMON MUNTEMBA THE Food Reserve Agency (FRA) will only buy 500,000 metric tonnes of maize from outlying areas this season, Government has announced. Agriculture minister, Dora Siliya, said yesterday there was also no floor price for maize. Ms Siliya also revealed that the Electronic Voucher system which was conducted in only 49 districts last year will this year be introduced to all the districts in Zambia as a way of making it easy to be accessed and increase the number of targeted beneficiaries. “I must emphasise this. Because it came up from even Members of Parliament yesterday. There is no floor price. Government does not give a floor price on maize that everybody should follow. No, we don’t do that. What we do through the FRA is offer our price that we think we can buy at and everybody else who is a buyer also offers the […]
