Maize aplenty for cheap mealie meal – FRA
ESTHER MSETEKA, Lusaka THE Food Reserve Agency (FRA) has released 58,000 metric tonnes of white maize under the tripartite maize programme signed with the Millers Association of Zambia (MAZ) and…
ESTHER MSETEKA, Lusaka THE Food Reserve Agency (FRA) has released 58,000 metric tonnes of white maize under the tripartite maize programme signed with the Millers Association of Zambia (MAZ) and…
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FOOD Reserve Agency (FRA) has commenced crop marketing season while most of the local small transporters have not been paid for the services rendered during the 2016/17 and 2017/18 seasons. (more…)
NANCY SIAME, Lusaka
ALL farmers who will sell maize to the Food Reserve Agency (FRA) this marketing season will get paid upon delivering the grain, board chairperson Joe Simachela has assured. (more…)
PRISCILLA MWILA, Lusaka
GOVERNMENT is targeting to buy 300,000 metric tonnes of maize from farmers in this year’s crop marketing season compared to the 500,000 targeted last season. (more…)
CATHERINE MUMBA, Choma THE Food Reserve Agency (FRA) has offloaded 30,000 kilogrammes of maize to drought-stricken Gwembe district for community sale. This is the second time FRA has offloaded maize…
STEVEN MVULA, Lusaka
IN GOVERNMENT’S quest to ensure reduced prices of mealie meal in the country, the Food Reserve Agency (FRA) has released 90,000 metric tonnes of maize to 12 millers on the Copperbelt. (more…)
NANCY SIAME, Lusaka
THE Food Reserve Agency (FRA) has started paying the last batch of farmers who have not been paid for the maize they supplied to the agency during the 2017/2018 crop marketing season. (more…)
THE directive by Government to the Food Reserve Agency (FRA) to offload 35,000 metric tonnes of maize to the market is commendable, but it also serves as a red flag for those tasked to ensure that the staple food is always readily available. (more…)