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Lusaka - Zambia: Kaputa District Commissioner, Cosmas Mwaya has urged farmers in the area to take farming as a business for them to realize their full

Lusaka - Zambia: Opposition Patriotic Front (PF) acting president Given Lubinda has warned that more party senior members will have their homes raided by the

MPOROKOSO Patriotic Front (PF) member of parliament Brian Mundubile and 22 others have asked the Constitutional Court to join them to a petition in which a UPND member wants the court to remove Section 97 (2) from the Electoral Process Act. The said Article 97 (2) enables the court to hold that an election marred

5/5/2021 LUSAKA, May 5 (Reuters) - Zambias maize production is expected to rise to 3.62 million tonnes in the current 2020/2021 crop season from 3.38 million tonnes last season, Agriculture Minister Michael Katambo said on Wednesday. Katambo said the anticipated higher production was due to good rains and the adoption of good agricultural practices by farmers. (Reporting by Chris Mfula; editing by John Stonestreet) © Copyright Thomson Reuters 2021. Click For Restrictions - http://about.reuters...

President Edgar Lungu has predicted that the country will record a bumper harvest in the 2020/2021 farming season. President Lungu says he is confident that this year, the country will have a bumper harvest because the maize crop planted across the country looks promising. “This year, we are going to celebrate a bumper harvest. Am not a prophet, but I can see that there is a lot of maize coming through unless something goes wrong. Let us keep it up, we should be proud people because we work ...

Over 98 percent of farmers under the Farmer Input Support Programme (FISP) have collected their inputs. Agriculture Minister Michael Katambo says FISP inputs for the current farming season were delivered early, and that the response from farmers has also been encouraging. Mr. Katambo says as of 18th December 2020, over 1 million farmers had deposited the required 400 Kwacha contribution towards the programme, representing a 100 per cent achievement. He said this at his office in Lusaka during a...

Ten thousand emerging farmers are earmarked to receive support to increase their productivity, incomes, and sustainable farming practices under a new project spearheaded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Corteva Agriscience, Global Communities, and John Deere. The development is a result of a Zambia Emerging Partnership whose objective is to transform Zambia’s largely subsistence sector through the commercialization of emerging farmers. The three-year project...

Global Communities COP Nobel Moyo, Corteva Country Director Samson Nyendwa, Afgri Representative Rayno Van Niekerk, Ladies and Gentlemen, All protocols observed. It is a great honor for me to be here with you at the signing of this memorandum of understanding for the Emerging Farmers Partnership project between USAID, Corteva Agriscience, John Deere, and Global Communities.  This MOU represents some of USAID’s most important values: economic resilience, private-sector engagement, and self-re...

She said it is important that resources are readily made available for response in case of emergencies. Speaking when she chaired the Disaster Management Council of Ministers virtual meeting, the Vice President stated that with the intensified rains, the country is expected to experience floods, washed away bridges and blown off roofs among other calamities that will negatively affect a lot of families. Mrs Wina said the country is also at risk of the cholera outbreak and other water borne dise...