{"id":44026,"date":"2021-07-24T19:58:47","date_gmt":"2021-07-24T17:58:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/?p=44026"},"modified":"2021-07-24T18:57:58","modified_gmt":"2021-07-24T16:57:58","slug":"600k-tonnes-of-grain-delivered-to-gmb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/600k-tonnes-of-grain-delivered-to-gmb","title":{"rendered":"600k Tonnes Of Grain Delivered To GMB"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\">Zimbabwe<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>The Grain Marketing Board (GMB) says farmers have delivered more than 600 000 tonnes of grain, surpassing the country\u2019s Grain Strategic Reserve requirement.<\/p>\n<p>GMB chief executive officer Rockie Mutenha also revealed that they will on Sunday announce over 1 400 mobile buying points to decongest their depots in compliance with COVID-19 safety guidelines. He said:<\/p>\n<p>We are receiving about 12 000 tonnes on a daily basis. So far, we have over 600 000 tonnes of grains.<\/p>\n<p>Over half a million of the grains is maize so our depots are busy as farmers intensify deliveries.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026 We have come up with 1 400 collections and mobile buying points which will be announced this Sunday. We want to ensure farmers do not congest our depots.<\/p>\n<p>We also encourage farmers to group and move their grains to one collection point and approach their nearest depot manager to assist them with transport to ferry grains to GMB.<\/p>\n<p>The GMB said over 80 per cent of all grain delivered so far has been paid for.<\/p>\n<p>Zimbabwe is set to achieve a record harvest of 2.7 million tonnes of maize this season following a good rainy season.<\/p>\n<p>The annual national maize requirement is 1.8 million tonnes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. The Grain Marketing Board (GMB) says farmers have delivered more than 600 000 tonnes of grain, surpassing the country\u2019s Grain Strategic Reserve requirement. 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