By GERALD ANDAEMore by this AuthorPosho mill operators will get 15 percent of the over two million bags of maize to be released by the National Cereals and Produce Board to check the rising cost of flour. The deal had previously been reserved for registered small scale millers under the umbrella of United Grain Millers and their large scale counterparts. The move implies that the posho mill operators will get 390,000 bags of maize as a fraction of 2.6 million bags to be released from the Strategic Food Reserve (SFR). Large scale millers, who operate under Cereal Millers Association, have a milling capacity of over 100 tonnes a day but only serves 30 percent of the country’s population. On the other hand, small scale millers and posho mills account for the 70 percent of the population in the country.

Source: Daily Nation May 19, 2019 18:00 UTC