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Government hasn’t slashed maize floor price for next marketing season

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Nakonde District Commissioner Billy Silwimba has dispelled rumours alleging that government, through the Food Reserve Agency (FRA), has reduced the maize floor price from K65,000 to K40,000 per 50 kilogramme bag.

In an interview with the Zambia News and Information Services (ZANIS) in Nakonde today, Mr. Silwimba said the rumours allegedly being propagated by some opposition political parties are not true.

He said it would be irrational for government to cut the maize floor price for this year’s marketing season when prices of inputs have increased.

He explained that the misinterpreted K40, 000 is the price of a K50 kilogramme bag of maize being sold by the FRA to the hunger stricken communities.

Mr. Silwimba said his office, like any other District Commissioner’s office, requested for maize to sell to hunger stricken areas in his district at a reduced price of K40, 000 per bag, noting that this is meant to enable more people afford the commodity.

He added that government is yet to announce the maize floor price for the forthcoming marketing season.

He has since appealed to the small scale farmers not to be misled by people alleging that government has reduced the maize floor price for this year’s marketing season.

The District Commissioner reiterated that, just like in the previous marketing season, government is committed to buy all the farm produce from the farmers.

He said government will fix a price that will satisfy the farmers.

ZANIS

2 COMMENTS

  1. AND NOW EVERYONE CAN SEE FRA FOR WHO THEY ARE!!!
    THEY DO THIS EVERY YEAR! LAST YEAR WE MADE LOSSES WITH THE MAIZE, FRA BOUGHT FOR 35PIN A BAG AND REFUSED TO PAY OUT WHAT GOV’T PRESCRIBED!
    HERE IT IS AGAIN THIS YEAR

  2. Let the farmers or maize growers ‘fix’ the maize price they would be happy with. Why should the buyer ie the govt thru the FRA set the price of a commodity they did not produce. Zambia an upside down country where change denotes choosing between two relics of the First and Second Republics. In rotten Zambia the more things change the more they remain the same!

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