THE Millers Association of Zambia (MAZ) has encouraged people that are holding on to maize on speculation that the country may experience a crop failure even this year to start offloading the commodity on the market. In an interview, MAZ president Andrew Chintala said his members were maximising production whenever Zesco supplied them with power to avoid causing a vacuum of mealie meal supply. “This is a peak period and I think we expect that the demand for the commodity has to actually increase. Because like you rightly observed I think the food security situation at household level and national level also becomes obviously at the best test in terms of the consumption and the movement of the volumes that...