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 will leverage more than K777 million (US$37 million) in loans for inputs and equipment, resulting in more than 50,000 hectares of crops planted using climate-adaptive seeds and other sustainable technologies. Minister of Agriculture Michael Katambo, in a statement issued to the media in Lusaka yesterday by Public Affairs Officer, Sean McIntosh at the U.S Embassy in Zambia, indicates that Zambia’s agriculture remains primarily subsistence, in which approximately 1.5 million smallholder farmers eking out a modest livelihood on less than two hectares of land.