FRA offloads cheap maize to Sinazongwe residents of Zambia as price per 25kg bag hits K200

Sinazongwe District Commissioner, Nchimunya Siakole says Government is promoting community sales of maize under the Food Reserve Agency (FRA) as a measure to cushion shortage of the grain in the District which has been compounded by dry spells experienced in the 2022/ 2023 farming season. The District Commissioner said the measure will help reduce the price of mealie meal in the district where a 25 kilogramme bag of breakfast mealie meal is selling at K200. Mr Siakole said the district has only two millers who are not registered with the Millers Association of Zambia(MAZ). He said this situation cannot allow the two millers to purchase the maize under community sales as they are not registered members of MAZ to buy cheaper maize from FRA. “Sinazongwe district depends on mealie meal supply from outsiders as the local millers have been unable to provide the commodity and this is causing shortages,” he said. Mr Siakole said mealie meal dealers in Sinazongwe District were advised to ...