fed agriculture for its annual food crop. This after the country recorded a bumper harvest the previous crop season and allowed farmers and millers to export maize -the staple crop to neighbouring Malawi, Zimbabwe, Democratic Republic of Congo, Tanzania and Kenya who had food deficits. Peasant and subsistence farmers are heeding calls by government to diversify their crops with some reverting to the production of cassava. However, reports from the north and northwest part of the country indicate that this rich traditional root crop lies uncollected from farmers by the state run Food Reserve Agency (FRA).
