HH challenges farmers to transform Agriculture
PRESIDENT Hakiainde Hichilema has challenged farmers to transform the agriculture sector and increase production.
Tag: ZNFU
Agriculture key sector to development – ZNFU
THE Zambia National Farmers’ Union (ZNFU) has maintained that the agriculture sector is a priority sector, which has remained at the centre of driving real economic growth while contributing significantly to the poverty reduction agenda.
DISASTER LOOMS
THERE will be a major food disaster if the fertiliser that has been supplied on the market has questionable efficacy and does not conform with the local soils, the Zambia National Farmers’ Union (ZNFU) has warned.
Early Maize
THAT Government is planning on and has engaged farmers through the Zambia National Farmers’ Union (ZNFU) to cultivate early maize to help cushion the cost of maize, and in turn mealie meal, is commendable, foresightedness.
Govt targets early maize production, engages ZNFU
As prices of mealie meal continue to be a thorny, government has now set in motion a process of identifying farmers who have the capacity to grow early maize, Ministry of Agriculture (MoA) Permanent Secretary Green Mbozi has said in a letter to provincial agriculture officers.
suspension on movement of maize, mealie meal suspended
GOVERNMENT has suspended the suspension of the restriction of the movement of the maize grain and mealie meal barely 24 hours after placing a moratorium on the movement of the same.
ZNFU counsels farmers
THE Zambia National Farmers’ Union (ZNFU) is dismayed with the premature sale of maize by small-scale farmers at low prices.ZNFU president Jervis Zimba, said the organisation was aware that farmers … Read More
MAZ carpeted over ‘maize shortage lies’
By BENNIE MUNDANDOWE have betrayed commercial farmers’ trust over early maize production and we should not blame them next time if they boycott, Zambia Republican Party (ZRP) president Wright Musoma … Read More
Winter maize ready for harvesting
By BENNIE MUNDANDOZAMBIA has produced over 135, 000 metric tonnes of early maize whose harvest starts in the next 10 days while more tonnage is still coming, the Zambia National … Read More