The National Association of Smallholder Farmers (NASFA) has called on Zambian farmers to organize themselves into groups and determine maize prices based on their production costs, rather than waiting for buyers to dictate market prices. This advice follows the government’s recent announcement that the Food Reserve Agency (FRA) will not fully participate in crop marketing during the upcoming season, clarifying that FRA’s mandate is to manage the country’s strategic food reserve, not to act as a crop marketing agency. Instead, a new private-sector-driven entity will be established for crop marketing. Speaking in an interview with Zambian Business Times (ZBT), NASFA...
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