THE Food Reserve Agency (FRA) says it took a risky action last year to sell 1,000,000 metric tonnes of maize in order to pay off farmers. FRA Board Chairperson Kelvin Hambwezya says although the country is now out of the deeper waters in terms of food security, the agency should never undertake such a risky action again. Speaking when he featured on ZNBC’s Sunday interview programme, Hambwezya said FRA predicted and knew that there was a looming maize crisis in the country. “We did predict, we knew there was a crisis coming. As at last November and October, we were sitting on 1, 500, 000 metric tonnes of maize as a country. That’s a sea of maize. With that maize,...