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Africa-Press – Zambia. <\/strong><\/span>The Food Reserves Agency (FRA) in Luwingu district has run out of space to store the maize it bought from peasant farmers in this year\u2019s crop marking season.<\/p>\n

This came to light when Northern Province Permanent Secretary, Bernard Mpundu, visited the FRA storage shed during an on the spot check. Mr Mpundu found the storage sheds filled to capacity and there was no maize that was being offloaded from lorries since there was nowhere to store it.<\/p>\n

At least 24 lorries loaded with FRA maize were found on the scene but had no place to offload the consignment, the development which angered drivers in the area.<\/p>\n

Mr Mpundu has since instructed Luwingu District Commissioner, Chomba Chileshe, to look for a temporal space where transporters will be able to offload the maize within the FRA premises.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Mr Mpundu has expressed happiness that farmers are selling their maize to the government and not to briefcase buyers. He explained that Luwingu district is one of the districts that have responded positively as farmers are contributing to the national strategic food reserve.<\/p>\n

Earlier, FRA Assistant Marketing Manager for Luwingu, Oswald Mulenga, said the two storage sheds in the district are full adding that there is nowhere to keep the maize.<\/p>\n

Mr Mulenga explained that the big shed has already been filled with 61,200 bags of maize while the smaller one has 26, 256 bags. He indicated that the trucks found at FRA sheds will not be allowed to offload until the sheds are cleared.<\/p>\n

And Luwingu District Commissioner, Chomba Chileshe, assured Mr Mpundu that a permanent solution will be found in order to offload maize that is still on the trucks.<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Zambia. The Food Reserves Agency (FRA) in Luwingu district has run out of space to store the maize it bought from peasant farmers in this year\u2019s crop marking season. This came to light when Northern Province Permanent Secretary, Bernard Mpundu, visited the FRA storage shed during an on the spot check. 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