Admarc sells 'rotten' maize | The Nation Online mwnation.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from mwnation.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Admarc fully operational, hires 1 300 new employees mwnation.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from mwnation.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Two weeks after the National Food Reserve Agency (NFRA) started buying maize, the Ministry of Agriculture is yet to give Agricultural Development and Marketing Corporation (Admarc) money to buy staple grain from farmers despite the State produce trader being strategically positioned to do so. Treasury in May released K6 billion to NFRA to buy maize
Despite costing higher for the average local consumer, retail maize prices in the country are lower than in neighbouring countries, a situation analysts fear could fuel informal exports and affect supply on the domestic market. Data compiled by the International Food Policy Research Institute (Ifpri) shows that low prices maize prices mainly on account of