President Edgar Lungu says the private sector plays a crucial role in our aspiration to become a regional economic hub.
The President says he is happy that the private sector is already taking a lead in enhancing national food security and support Government’s economic diversification agenda.
His statement follows a report which indicates that a US$81 million private sector-led input support scheme has been launched to benefit 120 commercial and 250,000 small-scale farmers in Zambia.
Zambia’s African Green Resources on Sunday launched an $81 million financing programme under which the company and its partners will provide farm supplies and technology to farmers in exchange for grain.
As part of broader plans by AGR to invest $150 million in Zambia for projects including a 50 megawatt solar farm and irrigation dam, AGR will target 120 commercial farmers and 250,000 small and middle farmers with the new programme to boost food security in Zambia and the surrounding region, Chairman Zuneid Yousuf said in a statement.
Mr Yousuf says the investment will cover 60,000 tonnes of fertiliser for wheat and soya farming-worth $55 million and $26 million for projects such as the expansion of grain storage silos.
He said this will be financed through regional and global banks, with the money repaid from the produce the programme yields.”
President Lungu said this is yet another positive worth applauding.
ECL failed to declare a hunger situation, leaving people to feed on wild fruits and grass.
They have benefited from fertilizer and seed procurement through corruption.
He fails to talk to his people when they have been terrorized by possibly known thugs.
He lacks the real leadership Zambia needs.
And some baby hyenas wanted us to declare a national disaster based on some unfounded allegations of hunger in the country. My friends this is a working government. As we get closer to 2021 opposition are running out of silly lies and excuses for losing in 2021.
I feel pity for our president who no matter how good he tries, things do not seem to work out well. Ba KZ, please advise him to unite the country so that we all peddle the boat in one direction. Remove the pride and publicly invite to state house those that oppose you so that you hear their proposals and even shake genuine hands. This thing of wanting to hold on to power and not groom people to succeed you is dangerous. Let us be like Mandela who even after leaving office had nothing to fear.
Hehehe, i have been around the country you guys have become so unpopular ask around any common Zambian they will tell you that PF has lost ground… am an open minded person i would love to hear your arguments, because this issue of saying you win election is not good to many of us because we quickly think the obvious (rigging).
Quote from RSA media: “…..President Cyril Ramaphosa said his administration’s drive to turn the economy around will be protracted and is being frustrated by the rapid spread of the coronavirus around the globe and other factors beyond its control.
“These are trying and testing times,” Ramaphosa SAID AT A TWO-HOUR BRIEFING TO JOURNALISTS IN CAPE TOWN ON TUESDAY. “I like to believe that we have entered an era where there is no longer any objection to reforms and transformation. We are going to reform. As this moves, we will be repositioning our economy for further investments.”….”
My emphasis on the TWO-HOUR briefing to journalists, face to face of course.
How I wish Ramaphosa was President for Zambia, the way he interacts with his people. Compare with Hamble, he can’t face…
…..My emphasis is on the TWO-HOUR briefing to journalists, face to face of course.
How I wish Ramaphosa was President for Zambia, the way he interacts with his people. Compare with Hamble, he can’t face his own people even on serious matters of national (peoples) security, ati my ministers have spoken enough. Ramaphosa has by far more capable ministers than Hamble’s yes men (except for a few like our minister of finance) who regularly brief the people but President Ramaphosa still meets people face to face to hear and answer direct questions.
Vote wisely 2021, we deserve better.
I FEEL PITY FOR ECL CZ HE IS SURROUNDED BY WRONG CHAPS WHO DON’T MEAN WELL EVEN KZ. CZ,KZ, WHEN YOU WERE HOLDING THAT POSITION OF THE ADVISOR TO THE PRESIDENT U DIDN’T MEAN WELL CZ IN AND OUT ALOT OF SCANDALS AND NOW U ARE EVEN AVOIDING TO BE SUMMONED TO THE POLICE CZ U ARE USING THE NEW POSITION U HAVE AT STATE HOUSE BUT UMULANDO TAUBOLA.REMEMBER, SOME GUY CALLED BOBO HOW RUTHLESS WAS IN THE TIME OF MMD. IT IS PITY THAT KZ YOUR AFTER LIFE U WILL LIVE TO REGRET.
This is another public crime being launched.
1. Look at the name of the Sherlock, very dangerous name.
2. Zambians can’t grow wheat. You give wheat seeds, and demand in repaying in maize??? What a scandle.
Before we make farmers jubilate , what is the current on the goat export deal to saudi arabia?
@Zambia’s African Green Resources on Sunday launched an $81 million financing programme under which the company and its partners will provide farm supplies and technology to farmers in exchange for grain.
@Nostradamus this scenario is you lima, we take the grain, you remain with the ” TECHNOLOGY” whatever that technology will be only God knows.
These are the Trojan horses GMO companies like Monsanto use to penetrate and a country weary of GMOs , then make the local farmers addicted to their GMO seeds…..
Some GMO grain seeds supplied by big companies like Monsanto can not be used for replanting after harvest. They are a one time germination seed , meaning the farmer has to keep buying his seed from them.
Their GMO grain Genom is also patented and you can be sued for using their grain without approval…
Local indginous seeds suffer and are wiped out.
Let’s hope GRZ looks carefully before accepting any sort of support anyhow …..
The PF has been unpopular mainly because of high mealie meal prices and load shedding and from this year’s rainfall these two items will be non issues by the time elections are held. And Zambians with their notorious short memories will have forgotten that they ever had high mealie meal prices and load shedding.
Mukula Trees saga
*Zambia said $13,499,131 worth of timber was exported to China from 2017-2018
*China says $193,958,109 worth of timber was imported from Zambia from 2017-2018
Are these figures also fake and is the government going to take legal action against the publishers of this article?
According to the traffickers met by EIA undercover investigators, prominent figures of the Zambian government and political sphere, including President Edgar Lungu, his daughter Tasila Lungu, Given Lubinda (Minister of Justice), and Jean Kapata (Minister of Lands and Natural Resources), are central figures in this illicit network
What happened to the 2000 solar hammer mills? How much has been raised? Dont mind this corrupt thug he is just thanking his friend at Spax Milling.
“Naturally, one does not normally discuss plans to commit murder with the intended victim.”
Is it logical for a head of state to just say private sector without defining who is this private sector. 99% of these people are foreigners, so what ebefit comes to our nation considering all the monies find their way out of the country. Concerning the Mukula the entire cabinet benefiting from these financial flows….. God help Zambia
A consignment of Guibourtia wood bound for Vietnam and worth over RM9mil was stopped by the authorities
Customs officers conducted a check on the shipping container at the Tanjung Pelepas port and seized the illegal wood from Zambia.
Guibourtia wood is a controlled item under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Special of Wild Fauna and Flora (Cites).
Johor Customs director Datuk Mohammad Hamidan Maryani said any shipment would need an export permit from the exporting country.
“We found 115 pieces weighing about 30,580kg in the container.
The wood is worth 2.9 million dollars equivalent to about 30 million Kwacha. Our sources have confirmed to our Team of Analysts that the owners of the confiscated wood belongs to a group of “Politically exposed Persons”. BA POMPWE!…
Regarding the confiscated Mukula in Malaysia , you will not hear a word from lungu, he knows who is chewing ….
In a country not run by thieves , an inquiry would be setup to get to the bottom of this
Edgar Lungu is a good leader but he’s surrounded by thieves n robbers.