THE Food Reserve Agency (FRA) has announced that it has started selling the 100, 000 metric tonnes of soya beans on the Zambian Commodity Exchange (ZAMACE) platform. In May this year, the agency revealed that it did not intend to buy soya beans during this year’s crop marketing season because it was sitting on 100,000 metric tonnes of the commodity. The announcement was, however, not received well by most stakeholders who asked the FRA to revisit its decision. A month later, the FRA announced that it would be buying soya beans this marketing season at K6 per kilogram once it puts its resources in order. In a statement, Wednesday, FRA Public Relations Coordinator John Chipandwe stated that the agency had...

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