Zimbabwe: Let’s be serious about producing staple food
Zimbabwe
Published May 19, 2022
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LAST month the Grain Marketing Board (GMB) released a statement that partly read: “The GMB wishes to advise all farmers that maize, soybeans, wheat, and barley are controlled products . . . Trading in controlled products (buying or selling) without the authority of the GMB is an offense. All storers, millers, stock feeders, and any other users of controlled products are required to register with the GMB before engaging in such business. . . Those found in breach of the regulations risk prosecution, forfeiture of the grains, and a fine three times the selling price of the controlled product.”
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Source: Let’s be serious about producing staple food | Newsday (News) LAST month the Grain Marketing Board (GMB) released a statement which partly read: “The GMB wishes to advise all farmers that maize, soyabeans, wheat and barley are controlled products . . . Trading in controlled products (buying or selling) without authority of the GMB is an offence. All storers, millers, stockfeeders and any other users of controlled products are required to register with the GMB before engaging in such business. . . Those found in breach of the regulations risk prosecution, forfeiture of the grains and a fine three times the selling price of the controlled product.” Fast forward to today, government has opened the floodgates for the importation by individuals of maize meal, among a long list of commodities. Knowing how porous and corrupted our border systems are, how is GMB going to distinguish the locally-grown maize from foreign maize because one thing for sure is imported grain will soon ...
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