THE Food Reserve Agency (FRA) says farmers should expect a “good” maize floor price for the 2025/2026 marketing season. Recently, National Association for Smallholder Farmers Executive Director Dr Frank Kayula said farmers would be happy if the government maintained the maize floor price at K340 per 50kg bag. He added that being an election year, his association is optimistic that the government may increase the maize floor price for the 2025/2026 farming. “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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