THE National Association for Smallholder Farmers (NASFA) has projected that the country will produce over 4 million tonnes of maize in the 2025/2026 farming season as a result of high e-voucher subscription under FISP, if all goes well. Recently, government, through the Ministry of Agriculture, announced that over 800,000 farmers had subscribed to the e-voucher under FISP. In an interview, Sunday, NASFA Executive Director Dr Frank Kayula said farmers had been given a good price for maize, which encouraged many of them to venture into maize production. “We’re projecting that if all goes well, we are likely to go beyond 4 million metric tonnes because a lot of farmers have gone into growing maize. The price that was given to...

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