Published: 01 October 2013

Government has put in place a Statutory Instrument (SI) to shore up the Agricultural Marketing Authority Act in a bid to promote marketing and fair trade practices in the grain and oil seeds industry.

The SI gazetted last Friday comes at a time when the government is trying to address challenges being faced by the grain and oil seed sectors.

The instrument would also protect the investments of farmers, contractors and suppliers.

It enforces the formation of a Grain and Oilseeds Technical Committee to be made up of a chairperson of the committee, 3 members of the Agricultural Marketing Authority management, and 11 members nominated from grain and oilseed producers, farmers' unions and Grain Marketing Board.

Other members would be drawn from grain and oilseeds processors, grain and oilseed traders, Ministry of Agriculture, Mechanisation and Irrigation Development, Consumer Council of Zimbabwe, Association of Bakers, Zimbabwe Seed Trade Association, Zimbabwe Fertiliser Trade, Retailers' Association of Zimbabwe and the Bankers' Association of Zimbabwe.
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