In 2016, Zambia and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia signed a Memorandum of Understanding over the export of K1 million goats per annum, a report that elated farmers and promised huge returns for the livestock sector. Despite years of high-profile bilateral announcements, the initiative has stalled. Speaking in an interview with the Zambian Business Times, Zamgoat founder and CEO Paul Nyambe said the country’s challenge is the lack of capacity to process meat to the market standards of the Gulf region. “The issue wasn’t really the number of goats in the country or the population of goats, but rather the...
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