Thank you, Deputy Speaker and thank you to the hon Deputy Minister as well. I must say that you and I share two things: My grandson went shopping for me and unfortunately he can't reach properly, or as high as your daughter. He was looking at the lower shelves, but that's by the bye.
I do, of course, study and enjoy the agricultural magazines and so on, but that again is something else.
When you go out ... [Interjections.] ... and the question is coming and thank you, you are not the speaker yet! [Laughter.] What I want to ask is this - the question is a very simple one, and the concern remains that maize is one of our staple foods and there is definitely a trend among the commercial farmers to recognise that shifting their maize into biofuels will generate them greater revenue. My concern for the people of our country, who are mostly poor and in the low-income group in the rural areas ... [Interjections.]