FOOD Reserve Agency (FRA) has designated to sell 100,000 tonnes of maize from the national strategic food reserve during the 2016/17 season to create space for the commodity to be purchased later this year. Zambia is expected to harvest 3.6 million tonnes of maize this season but FRA only buy 500,000 tonnes of maize and 2,100 tonnes of paddy rice during the 2017/18 crop-marketing season.