THE Millers Association of Zambia (MAZ) has advised farmers to take advantage of already existing markets and sell their maize. The Association says the Food Reserve Agency (FRA) will not manage to buy the entire five million tonnes of maize the country has produced. On Monday, FRA said it would only start purchasing maize when the moisture content hits 12.5 per cent. In an interview, Wednesday, MAZ president Andrew Chintala said other available markets such as grain traders must offe fair prices to farmers. “The country is expecting about five million metric tonnes of maize and FRA had earlier on announced through their Board Chair that they’re going to buy one million metric tonnes. And as far as that is...

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