THE Food Reserve Agency (FRA) has announced that it will start buying non-genetically modified white maize from farmers at K340 for a 50-kilogramme bag. And FRA Board Chairperson Suresh Desai says if government had not handled the previous drought properly, people would have died of hunger. Meanwhile, FRA Executive Director Justin Chuunka says the country has received 84 percent of the maize it purchased from Tanzania and that it should be able to finalise this whole process within the next two weeks. Addressing the media, Tuesday, Desai said the agency would first target to buy 543,000 metric tons of maize and 10,000 metric tons of paddy rice. “In light of differences in weather patterns across the country, the agency will...