Zambia is to start exporting beef this year.
Livestock and Fisheries Minister, Bradford Machila says measures have been set up to scale up livestock production.
He says the K70 billion allocation in this year’s budget will help scale up measures against livestock diseases.
Mr. Machila says the major hindrance in the fight against livestock disease has been insufficient funding.
He added that the Ministry has lined up a number of programmes such rehabilitation and construction of communal dip tanks.
The Livestock and Fisheries Minister says the Zambian government is in the process of setting up a livestock disease free zone.
[ZNBC]
Thanks LT for this update. People should know these things. l-)
There’s alot of income from beef and I hope they have set the right prices because demand for African foodstuffs in Europe is rising.
I also hope there’s enough to feed those at home.
Atleast forex kaili
Big up Machila! but when exactly? hope it wont take forever!
Hope this is just poliko talk…know what I mean just even if there is nothing to say
U will be exporting wen other pipo in mumbwa, shangombo and other hunger stricken villages dnt even knw wat beef tastes like.Anyway thts **== for us
Good news for my people in Namwala.
MMMMMMM Nyama!
Make it organic and you will reap a fortune! But make sure you eradicate contagious bovine pleural pneumonias and TB!
There are only two major livestock areas in Zambia i.e Southern and Western Province I continue to wonder why it is been so difficult to get rid of livestock diseases. I hope this funding will be directed towards vaccinations and other related measures. I doubt however that this will be so. Expect to see the balooning of the bureaucracy of the livestock division. That is the way we solve problems in Zambia…heap a layer of bureaucracy upon a layer of bureaucracy….and pronto we have solved the problem!
#6. Zoe
Germany exported bread after the first world war in order to pay the war reparations while its people had nothing. Sometimes we need to export in order to make money that will help our people in the long run! Funny, you should actually say that people don’t know what beef tastes like, when I saw so many people in rural Zambia with cell phones. If they can afford ‘talk time’ why can’t they afford a decent cut? Priorities are miaplaced.
more lies and promises that wont be fullfilled!! Apart from Congo and Zimbabwe – even that is a big maybe; who is going to let in our foot&mouth cattle dead or alive. There is a ban on cattle from Zambia to most countries and that will continue to be enforced for generations to come.
#9. Mbulawa
ou are right, but Eastern and Northen Provinces have tsetse flies and terrible terrain.
What I have never understood is why we cannot do something with buffaloe. That meat is yummy too. Perhaps try to create breeds that can withstand disease. Hey, is there any vet out there who can tell me whether we can cross buffalo and cows?
Zambia exporting beef ? that news to me,hope this is really a real thing not a pipe dream
Hey guyz for your on info.Thats my 3:-o3:-o above at my farm LT was here yestarday:-h
Another oil mining in north-western province story.
VOTE RIGGER u cant compare Germany to Zambia :o,Germany is a developed and zambia is a developing country and God knws if it will ever be called a developed country wth the pipo that come in2 power[-([-([-(am cnt possible.The villagers having cellphones doent not guarrantee them geting tok tym everyday,thoz wth cellphones are actually related to thoz who are well to do and they send them airtym not that they themselves buy,they dnt even knw how to load airtym kanofye ama EDUCATES=))=))
huraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa:d
:-j:-j:-j:-j:-j.This is funny.
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#14
Good for you1 but they look sick! What are they suffering from? :d
UBU BUFU UBWATA TUTUUUUUUUU!!!!!
I meant this IS a BIG LIE BOZA
#10 IT IS TRUE, YOU WATCH ZAMBIA FROM A DISTANCE ASK US WHO ARE ON THE GROUND, THE SITUATION IS REALLY BAD .OWNING A CELL PHONE IS NOTHING MOST OF THEM HAVE NOT BOUGHT TALK TIME FOR AGES THEY DEPEND ON ME TO YOU.THOSE PHONES ARE 4 PAGING,WHEN SOMEONE PAGES U FROM THE VILLAGE THEN U KNOW THE STORY ,RARE ARE THE CASES THEY PHONE TO GREET
Some Zambians can’t even remember when they last tasted beef yet we want to start exporting it. Like the maize deal, it won’t be too long before we start importing it. We never seem to learn
Hope this works and is not just to benefit some individuals ^:)^**==
Like Dora!! 😕
Hey Baby C. they are not sick…LT use these Chinese cameras thats probably the reason they look like this 😕
Interesting
Bruder L
Howcome you in Zambia?
Miss Daisy
Ala bruder L tomfwa! spare yourself from that headache! He will reveal himself when he feels like! Thats why he is Lts most wanted blogger! Dead or alive!
Do we even have enough animals for us to start exporting beef? :-?:-?:-?:-?
Jam@co dnt start again,u shall now be banned completely frm blogging, guard yo identity brother,we still need you
Is it, thanks Baby c, am hungry naya kung’nda
Elyo Beer is cheaper…ma ma ma, i can imagine those braais with enough beef all over the place! and you want to export?
Well, at least we’ve got good news.
livestock and fisheries minister, so we now have an extra ministry, just for RB to seem to be working. what a legacy.
OWE i didnt see that,Bradford Machila LIVESTOCK AND FISHERIES MINISTER, =))=))=))=)). Then i will be MINISTER OF LEISURE
Zoe
That ministry suits you limbi kuti…anyway never mind. :-j:-j:-j
# 31-Major, Zambeef and HH’s Livestock Development Company have been exporting beef big time for long now. All you need is being positive and progressive minded. The major hussle is that GRZ cannot walk the talk thats why at times it’s hard to believe the lot.
The Govt should buy the beef and give it to poor Zambian children and the homeless. You only export when the bellies of your own people a full
Ka Matworld finish up yo ka sentence and stop being a coward,yashani iyo??????????
29. Miss Daisy
it was not me at Numbala 19 !! Its always gelemani !!
32. Zoe
it was not me at 19!! Someone playing jokes. maybe they want some beef :d
Jam@co i see coz u did nt use the zambian flag tht tym u were playing tht game <:-p<:-p<:-p
was checking on livestock diseases en i found that zed tops the list! its about time we did smthing! altho the problems isnt entirely ours! our neighbour also contribute, as zed is centrally located, all transportation of livestock basically kriss krosses zed to other countries!
I know for a fact that Zambia has been exporting beef to Nigeria and others through Zambeef. Perhaps the heading should have been – ‘Zambia to expand or widen her beef exports’ or something.
My young brothers and sisters am off to school :-h:-h:-h
Mr. Bradford Machila,
This sounds like a viable investment, probably one of its kind to bring in most needed revenue…
Go for it.
Rehabilitation and reconstruction of communal dip tanks should be extended to the rural areas too.
The export of beef sounds good news for Zambia. But in honest terms it is not.Is the home beef market full of beef? If it is,Is it affordable to people! If it is then good message for the country. But for sure very few luck ones afford to eat beef in the country.Because beefexport revenues will not be as other exports have had not been noticed by people of the country.
Please let us make beef affordable to every one in the country; let us put our peoples’ interst firt before we consider feeding people elsewhere.
Is Livestock and Fisheries Ministry from ministry of agriculture?
How can Zambia even think of exporting beef when the majority of Zambians cant even afford to eat beef once per week! The current price of beef is very expensive!
Just a gimmic to sustain pricing mechanism
who is gonna buy our tough meat? foot and mouth desease etc look how thing they look in the pic. shileponta but last time i was in ….mbia we bought T-bone but my kids could eat it coz it was too tough!!!
Imwe mwe bantu mwilaponta iyo!
Most of you were brought up on this meat. You survived and now are fat and leaving abroad. You look back start ukuponta.
reminds me of a bemba song “shama” and goes pa Chorus like
“Lesa wandi ifintu ifingi kwena mwalipela, nomba umutima utila kwena ni shama!
Be thankful and support your mother Zambia!!
why are pipo so negative? some of the so-called villagers have enough beef to feed people who live in coumpunds in lusaka, they do not need the government to feed them, they just need to be empowered and they will be better off
Hi Foulkes,
Isn’t it interesting how stories such of a pure economic have a poor response compared to social stories…. along the lines of Sata/Membe said so and so is a thief etc,
Is it just me whose noticed this trend, if this was another ‘social’ story responses could have been in there hundreds already…-|8-|8-|
Taking this site as a sample of supposedly literate Zambians, residing mostly in advanced economies can only lead me to a sad conclusion….
OUR ATITUDES AND PRIORITIES TOWARDS LIFE ARE OUR NUMBER 1 ENEMY :-ss8
Only my humble opinion
LG
When dem go start exporting Ganja? %%-
LOL I am from the southern province my family only has a piece of meat when i visit. All the dogs in the neigbhood move camp but then the humans cant let go of the bones. Where can I find Dora I need a loan.
Bradford, old son, Zambia has been exporting beef since 1993 when GRZ started messing up people’s aspirations. So many of us have left the country for greener pastures, so there you go – its not thing new. 🙁
How do export meat when those cows are sleepy all the time and the meat BABA you need a pliers [sp] or hacksaw besides they suffer from denkete its only fit for the cheap market at soweto where its not subjected to inspection by the VET
Why export while the local market is depending on South African? Which one is affordable to the locals?
Let them export cos it is out of reach of many zambians and it’s just rotting in butcheries yet the price continues to rise.
Great! Export the beef then import tinned beef!