THE National Association for Smallholder Farmers (NASFA) is urging government to quickly release the Crop Forecast Survey Report, saying the delay is agitating farmers and leaving them vulnerable to briefcase buyers. The Crop Forecasting Survey (CFS) for Zambia is generally released every year in May at the beginning of the agriculture marketing season and is conducted collaboratively by the Ministry of Agriculture and the Zambia Statistics Agency. In an interview, Sunday, NASFA Executive Director Dr Frank Kayula said government should consider releasing the report earlier than May to help farmers plan for the market. “We think that it’s very important for the survey to be released much earlier than in May because that would help farmers to prepare well for...
