Zambia minister: We have no maize to export to Kenya
Kenya’s Agriculture Cabinet Secretary Mithika Linturi who has said Kenya is contracting Zambian farmers to grow maize exclusively for the Kenyan market. On the other hand, Zambia's Finance Minister Situmbeko Musokotwane has said his country will not be exporting maize to Kenya this season because it has a deficit in the grain. PHOTO | SILA KIPLAGAT | NMG
Zambia will not be exporting maize to Kenya this season because it has a deficit in the grain, its Finance Minister, Dr Situmbeko Musokotwane, has said.
In an interview with The East African on the side-lines of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund Spring Meetings in Washington DC, Dr Musokotwane said Zambia will instead be importing maize to supplement the shortfalls occasioned by a poor harvest last season.
