Thu, 04 May 2017 12:09:07 +0000 By AARON CHIYANZO ZAMBIA needs to immediately export about 800,000 metric tonnes of maize before the grain starts rotting and also to give room to the new harvest, Zambia National Farmers Union (ZNFU) president Jarvis Zimba has advised. Mr Zimba said that Zambia had more than enough stocks of maize and that the maize now risked getting rotten if not disposed of quickly. He said in an interview with Daily Nation that that the country needed to immediately dispose off about 800,000 MT to remain with enough to satisfying demand. Mr Zimba however disclosed that Government had allowed farmers to export 100,000 MT but that the grain traders wanted the newly introduced 10 percent export surcharge to be done away with. He charged that the 10 percent surcharge on export of maize should be removed so that Zambian maize prices could become competitive in the region. Mr Zimba […]
