Agribusiness - Zambian Business Times

Treat farming as a business, not a cycle of FISP dependency- NASFA

Middlemen to grab lion’s share of maize exports?

Zambia moves closer to accessing EU seed market

Treat farming as a business, not a cycle of FISP dependency- NASFA

Middlemen to grab lion’s share of maize exports?

Zambia moves closer to accessing EU seed market

Agribusiness

Novatek US$10 million feed plant investment leads to higher demand for Soya and Maize

The EU €800,000 grant to Zambia to aid drive Gold and Agro exports

Chamber of Commerce applauds Zambrew on value addition to local Agro Products

ZNFU, 31 other CSO’s join hands in opposing attempts to legitimize introduction of GMOs in Zambia

Popular

Treat farming as a business, not a cycle of FISP dependency- NASFA

By Francine Chibuye The National Association for Smallholder Farmers (NASFA) has urged farmers to run agriculture as a business and avoid dependence on the Farmer Input Support Programme (FISP), as it backed the Food Reserve Agency’s (FRA) caution against selling maize

Read More

Grains

Winter maize not viable in Zambia – ZNFU

Cross Border Traders fear Zambians will not afford imported maize & mealie meal from SA

FRA starts buying maize

Maize price increased by K100 – up by 55%

Govt not sure how much maize is remaining in the country

FRA blamed for lowly 288Mt soybeans production

Livestock

dry kapenta price hits K389

Kapenta price hits K389 per kg

Agribusiness, Markets

Competition commission warms millers & poultry producers

Companies, Markets

Meat and poultry products driving up inflation – BOZ

chickens

Serenje farmer making K52,000 per month from rearing chickens

Cost of doing business has tripled – PAZ

Some poultry farmers to shut down amid load shedding – PAZ

Vegetables

Tomato prices drop as commodity floods the market

Chongwe farmer earns over K150,000 per month through tomato production

Farmers deny supplying poor quality onions

Suspension of potatoes and onion imports saving the country forex

Ban on onion imports to be lifted

Ginger & Garlic imports drops 33%

Fruits

Mkushi Framers commences quality Orange production – Sikunyongana

Mwinilunga fruit processing plant to be commissioned in October

Construction of Katete fruit plant to be completed next month

Mwinilunga fruit processing plant takes shape

Mwinilunga fruit processing plant commissioning derailed

Over 500 million litres of milk traded informally