Rational and Background
The Agricultural Credit Act No. 35 of 2010 was enacted by Parliament in November, 2010, and the Minister of Agriculture and Co-operatives issued a Statutory Instrument, to operationalise it in March, 2011. Thereafter, it was upon the experts to agree on implementation modalities of the Act given the prevailing environment in the country. It is in this vein, that the Agricultural Consultative Forum (ACF), the Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives (MACO) and the Food Security Research Project (FSRP) organized a stakeholders meeting in Siavonga from 7-8th July, 2011 to discuss the start up activities on the Warehouse Receipt System functions which were incorporated in the newly enacted Agricultural Credit Act No.35 of 2010. The meeting was attended by 48 participants invited from the private sector, public sector and Non-governmental organizations. Appendix 2 provides details of stakeholders who participated in the consultative meeting.
