Farmers in Mansa District have vowed never to sale their maize to the Food Reserved Agency (FRA) in this year’s crop marketing season until their grievances are met.
This is in protest against the move by the F RA to reduce on the number of satellite deports to five out of the seventeen they were allocated in the district last year.
Mansa District Agriculture Committee Chairman Abraham Lwando who spoke to ZANIS in an interview says after a meeting held yesterday, the farmers have resolved not to sale their maize until the 17 deports that were allocated to them last year are brought back.
Mr Lwando wandered how the FRA can reduce on the number of satellite deports in the district when the number farmers has continued to rise.
Mr Lwando has since appealed to government to look into the matter saying the move to reduce on the number of satellite deports will bring congestion in the few deports and open the farmers to sale their maize to briefcase business men.
He said Mansa district currently has 38 thousand farmers who if they were to sale their crops to the five deports could result in a congestion.
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Mansa district has recorded yet another maize bumper harvest, and one wonders why our govt can act the way it is by reducing the number of satelites depots. Please GRZ, if anything we need more depots.
Imwe naimwe you will get all the depots ala. Ba LT your words ububi. “Deport”=depot, “wandered”=wondered, “sale”=sell? Check how these words can be used and their meanings. If you use microsoft word, right-click on the word and go to synonyms to check out words with similar meanings. Write properly naimwe. Depot=store, warehouse…wander=lost physically, moving aimlessly, wonder=lost as in reasoning, meaning, logic..
“Sale”=sort of noun as in “on sale”. “Sell” is activity of exchanging a good or service with mankucha, money. Even if it is just for driving your points home tafimoneka fye bwino mwe. My be some of us had better teachers than these writers. Maybe it is plain carelessness.
i like your points,Its not carelessness but this is the caliber of journalists we now have in Zambia. Like you, i get so irritated when reading such articles. I think primary school teachers nowadays are half baked. I DONT think most of them know the meaning of words they write so pupils who pass through their hands end up being poor in grammer. I remember in my primary school years as far back as grade 3 when we used to have english spelling lessons and pronouciations…….Now that am in the UK, i have realised how important those classes were.
I need some educating before I comment. Is FRA suppose to be the only buyer of maize or is it the prefered choice of small scale/commercial farmers? I thought FRA is meant to hoard strategic food (not only maize) reserves to cushion the nation during lean times. I could be wrong
Even if u dont sell to FRA, who will suffer??? oke kanshi muleipikafye iciboboli or Magwaza in Tonga….
Really superb information can be found on website.
Remembering RB now?
If government wanted other players to effectively parcipate in the maize marketing exercise,then it would leave the market forces to set the commodity prices unlike
the current senario .
you mean these lazy fish monger thiefs can now grow a few cobs of maize . . …did u mean cassava …i bet civilization is taking root in this backward sorcery society known for biwitching each other, turning into crocs and shitting in water et al the evil deeds . . . .yaba !
@Kadansa @9 It is idiotic and imbecilic to utter such insulting nonsense on a people who have not provoked you. You are the meaning of uncivilised personality. If characters like you have nothing sensible to say, the best you can do is to shut up. Your comments are irrelevant.