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

Published 2023년 3월 22일

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The Sinazongwe District in Zambia is experiencing a maize shortage due to dry spells during the 2022/2023 farming season. In response, the government is promoting community sales of maize through the Food Reserve Agency (FRA) to reduce mealie meal prices and alleviate the shortage. However, the lack of registration of local millers with the Millers Association of Zambia (MAZ) is preventing them from purchasing maize at lower prices from the FRA. The community sales of maize by FRA have been beneficial to many, but there is an appeal for the government to extend the community sales period and for millers to reduce mealie meal prices.

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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 ...

Source: Lusakatimes