Markets and trade
 

Detail

Area
Zambia
Commodity Group
Grains
Commodity
Maize
Date
01/12/2015
Policy Category
Stocks
Policy Instrument
Stock release
Description
Announced plans to sell maize from state reserves to millers to control escalating prices. The measure will stay in place until June 2016. The programme also will distribute relief maize to vulnerable households through the Governments Disaster Management and Mitigation Unit.