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Article: Zambia to Buy Maize for Food Reserve
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- October 14, 1996
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The Zambian government is expected within the next two weeks to
begin buying maize from farmers with the 10 billion Kwacha (eight
million US Dollars) allocated to the Food Reserve Agency (FRA).
FRA has already hired contractors to do the job, the local press
today quoted Agriculture, Food and Fisheries Ministry Permanent
Secretary Austin Sichenga as revealing.
Sichenga said at the weekend that the maize ...