AreaZimbabwe

Commodity GroupGrains

CommodityMaize

Date01/03/2017

Policy CategoryConsumption and marketing

Policy InstrumentGovernment procurement

DescriptionBudgeted USD 140 million to buy 800 000 tonnes of maize from domestic farmers to replenish its strategic reserve, as the country is recovering from drought and battled a pest that threatened its maize crop.