The Grain Marketing Board

The Grain Marketing Board (GMB) was established in 1931 as the Maize Control Board. It was renamed the Grain Marketing Board in 1951 after its portfolio was increased to include all grains. The GMB is a wholly state owned enterprise with network depots. The GMB is in the business of commodity trading in cereals and oil seeds, the provision of logistic services to the agricultural industry as well as processing of products. Its main objective is to ensure national food security through production, procurement and management of SGR and to transform the organisation into a commercially viable entity. GMB's has been modified from being fundamentally a developmental or social institution to include being a commercially oriented commodity trading organisation. his led to introduction of SILO brand of products.