Mon, 10 Apr 2017 06:07:15 +0000 By BENNIE MUNDANDO GOVERNMNET must allow for the exportation of maize to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) where grain traders and farmers have found market to get rid of old stock and trigger purchase appetite for the new crop, the Zambia National Farmers’ Union (ZNFU) has said. ZNFU president Jervis Zimba told the Daily Nation yesterday that the union was grateful to the government for allowing a total of 40,000 metric tonnes of maize to be export by grain traders. He said however that the decision by government to only allow the exportation of mealie meal to DR Congo was not helping farmers and the grain traders but only millers. Mr. Zimba said it was surprising that while countries like South Africa were exporting maize to the DRC, Lusaka was blocking grain traders from selling their commodity to that country leaving only millers to participate in the […]
