By Staff Reporter<\/p>\n
The Millers Association of Zambia (MAZ) anticipates another shortage of wheat on the market due to reduced production in the last farming season.<\/p>\n
Association president Andrew Chintala says to this effect the country is likely to import the product to meet the current increased demand.<\/p>\n
Speaking in an interview with ZANIS<\/em> in Lusaka yesterday, Chintala disclosed that\u00a0MAZ\u00a0is engaging the Zambia National Farmers Union to establish the available tonnage of wheat and how much would be required to be imported.<\/p>\n \u201cI can confirm that we currently do not have enough wheat to meet the demand on the market, therefore I think we shall need to import the commodity, \u201che said.<\/p>\n Chintala explained that for the last six farming seasons the country has seen a reduction in the production of wheat a situation he says has continued to create a shortage of the product in the country.<\/p>\n He added that many farmers especially in Mkushi in Central Province who were the major producers of commodity have attributed the reduction in production levels to water challenges.<\/p>\n Chintala is however, optimistic that with the opening of the Momboshi dam in Chisamba, production would improve as many farmers will be encouraged to venture into wheat growing.<\/p>\n He also called for concerted efforts from all stakeholders in the agriculture sector to find a lasting solution and ensure that there was increased production of key crops such as wheat.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Staff Reporter The Millers Association of Zambia (MAZ) anticipates another shortage of wheat on the market due to reduced production in the last farming season. Association president Andrew Chintala says to this effect the country is likely to import the product to meet the current increased demand. Speaking in an interview with ZANIS in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsdayzambia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8137"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsdayzambia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsdayzambia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsdayzambia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsdayzambia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/newsdayzambia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8138,"href":"http:\/\/newsdayzambia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8137\/revisions\/8138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsdayzambia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsdayzambia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsdayzambia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}