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  • Nepad pact to boost farming in Africa

    Established in July 2003, the programme, an initiative of the African Union and the New Partnership for Africa's Development (Nepad), is the highest policy level framework for the development of agriculture in Africa. The purpose of the CAADP roundtable, to be hosted by the Zambian government and the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa, is to reach consensus among key stakeholders on Zambia's agricultural development agenda, forge the necessary partnerships to implement it and secure commitments and resources from partners to make the necessary investments. According to a statement from the Comesa secretariat in Zambia, Zambian stakeholders under the auspices of the Ministry of Agriculture and Co-operatives and the Agricultural Consultative Forum met on March 27, 2008 to agree on priority programmes "that will bring the required higher growth in the agriculture sector." Further, outgoing Comesa secretary-general, Erastus Mwencha, on April 3, met Zambian Agriculture minister Sarah Sayifwanda and discussed the agreement, which will be signed by the African Union, the Zambian Ministers for Agriculture and Finance, co-operating partners, Comesa and the private sector under the Zambia National Farmers Union and Agri-business Forum.
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  • Ferry Your Own Maize, Zim Millers Ordered

    Zimbabwe's Grain Marketing Board (GMB) has ordered all millers in that country to organise their own transport to collect maize from Zambia in an effort to avert imminent starvation. According to the Zimbabwe Guardian of yesterday, in an effort to speed up the process, the ruling ZANU PF had dispatched youths to Lusaka to help in the loading of the maize onto Zimbabwe-bound trucks. Most parts of Zimbabwe have run out of maize stocks, with the little available stocks being sold on the black market. According to the paper, in Bulawayo, a 10-kilogramme bag of maize was now fetching Z$200 million instead of the stipulated Z$10 million. Zimbabwe's Minister of Agriculture, Rugare Gumbo confirmed the government had dispatched manpower to Zambia to help quicken the delivery of maize.
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  • Zambia receives Japanese grant for fertiliser, agro-machinery

    Japan has given Zambia a grant of K11.6 billion ($3 million) for the importation of 4,000 metric tonnes of fertiliser and 60 tractors and trailers to help the country increase food production in the 2008/09 farming season. , said this in Lusaka yesterday during a grant assistance agreement signing ceremony at the ministry. "The tractors will be for sale to eligible small scale-farmers who are registered in accordance with Government's regulations," said Minister of Finance and National Planning, Ng'andu Magande.
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  • Cotton is among the foremost export crops

    In commercial considerations, cotton is among the foremost export crops for Zambia. For years, Zambia has been contributing significantly to the world's cotton market through the export of cotton. In addition, cotton provides livelihood to thousands of Zambian farmers under the cotton grower schemes in various parts of the country. The weaving industries have flourished and been sustained by directly feeding on the cotton grown locally in Zambia. Sadly, despite all these positive contributions to the economy, the sector has constantly struggled against many huddles. Whereas it is true that agricultural commodities in general, tend to have a more difficult entry to the global market, the cotton sector has borne much of the brunt. The price of cotton on the global market has kept plummeting, putting hundreds of cotton growers in dire straits. This has largely emanated from specific trade policies of the major players on the market.
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  • Zambia growing too much a4dagaa4

    The International Narcotic Control Board annual report for last year has cited Zambia as one of the largest producer of Cannabis in Southern Africa. Drug Enforcement Commission (DEC) Acting Commissioner, Peter Chingaipe has disclosed. Mr. Chingaipe said South Africa, Botwana and Swaziland are some of the countries found to be producing canabis at a large scale. The DEC [...]
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  • FRA assures the nation of food security

    The Food Reserve Agency (FRA) has parried off fears that export of maize to neighboring countries would result into a deficit locally. FRA Public Relation Officer Mwamba Siame told ZANIS in an interview that the agency is alert to the need to satisfy local consumption demands before seeking to make exports. Mrs. Siame said in order to [...]
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  • African Swine Fever outbreak in Zambia

    African swine fever has claimed more than 3,000 pigs in the Northwestern province of Zambia. In the districts of Solwezi, Kasempa, Mufumbwe and Kabompo, the disease has been recorded, according to provincial agriculture coordinator, Charles Sondashi.
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  • Zambian cassava farmers appeal for processing plants

    Peasant cassava farmers in Zambia's Copperbelt province have called on investors to set up a cassava milling plant to facilitate the processing of the crop into commercially viable products. Accor
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  • Demand for Country Maize Grain Heightens

    Demand for Zambian maize in the export market has started rising with the latest order of 50,000 tonnes but Government is worried that the Food Reserve Agency (FRA) still owes farmers about K46 billi
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  • Zambia to export 150,000 T white maize

    Zambia will export 150,000 tonnes of white maize to a neighbouring country, agriculture and co-operatives minister Ben Kapita said on Friday. Kapita, who declined to name the country where maize w
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  • China Extends its Network to Africa for Agricultural Opportunities

    Landless Chinese farmers migrate to Africa in search of agricultural opportunities Jacques Cassiman, a famous European geneticist with a heart for Africa, was once asked what the future has in store
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  • Selling the idea of sorghum in southern Zambia

    It is fair to say that most farmers in the Southern Province are extremely dissatisfied with growing maize. It fails to meet expectations, year after year, as erractic rainfall and localized droughts
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  • Smallholder milk production safe

    Zambia's Magoye Smallholder Dairy Farmers Association has become a blue chip in Africa's smallholder dairy farming project. Magoye, in Mazabuka in the southern province of Zambia is a reality of a hi
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  • Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe to Import Maize Seed

    The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe will import about 12 000 tonnes of maize seed from Zambia worth over US$17 million as part of the ongoing efforts to avert shortages during the current farming season.
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  • African farm growth eyed after decades of famine

    Long associated with famine and agricultural decline, Africa has the potential and opportunity to raise its output significantly, experts say, with global agribusiness firms eyeing the prospects for
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