Comments on: Tambatamba directs FRA to heighten its outreach programmes to enhance the maize buying exercise

By: Tikki

Tikki — Wed, 03 Jul 2024 14:36:34 +0000

The New Dawn GRZ is now Old Dawn GRZ
One can see they have lost direction
HH is an Excellent businessman but he is turning out to be a poor president
It is almost time to look at another option

By: Chisha Banda

Chisha Banda — Wed, 03 Jul 2024 11:21:29 +0000

FRA is an organization that was set up by people that do not mean well for the farmers. I get surprised why New Dawn Government is not thinking about restructuring the maize and food procurement system.

By: Tikki

Tikki — Wed, 03 Jul 2024 05:46:20 +0000

FRA is a nonsense at the end of a season nothing balances on the books

By: Deja Vu

Deja Vu — Wed, 03 Jul 2024 04:56:53 +0000

In reply to Ayatollah.

True. Each time I go to pick a bag for consumption, I take a few more to sell to this miller who has camped by our road. I get a good deal enough to see me through.
I was also about to ask under which ministry does FRA fall.

By: Ayatollah

Ayatollah — Wed, 03 Jul 2024 01:58:12 +0000

In some areas, millers and grain traders are buying maize at as much as K500 per 50kg bag and they’re paying cash on the spot. This becomes very attractive to farmers. Whenever millers and grain traders buy maize at a price higher than the FRA it means the stocks are few. The few people that are taking their maize to FRA are those that have been told that they might not benefit from FISP if they don’t sale to the agency. So even this year FRA won’t be able to meet its target. It’s good that Brenda Tambatamba has taken the lead because Mtolo Phiri is now completely lost