NATIONAL Association for Smallholder Farmers (NASFA) Executive Director Dr Frank Kayula says farmers will be happy if government maintains the maize floor price at K340 per 50kg bag. Dr Kayula, however, says being an election year, he is optimistic that government may increase the maize floor price for the 2025/2026 farming season. In a recent interview, Dr Kayula advised farmers not to sell their maize for less than K300 per 50kg bag. “For us, we’ll be comfortable even if it is repeated at K340 per 50kg or K1.68 per kg. I think that will still be good, but going by the sentiments that I’m seeing and hearing, I think we may get a little more than that, and that will...

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