THE National Association for Smallholder Farmers (NASFA) says government’s promise to pay farmers by January 10 has come too late, insisting that it should pay them with 30 per cent interest for the delay. NASFA argues that if the practice of delaying payments continues, food security will be affected because farmers will be discouraged from planting maize. On Tuesday, government assured the nation that it would fully settle the debt owed to farmers who supplied maize to the Food Reserve Agency (FRA) by January 10, 2026. In an interview, Wednesday, NASFA Executive Director Dr Frank Kayula said the association hopes the delay does not repeat itself, noting that farmers had placed so much hope in government. “There was an initial...