Zambia’s small-scale commercial farmers have a robust attitude towards agriculture. Many of them work, using their wages and salaries for cash flow, while they build up their agri-businesses and look ahead to full-time farming. Stephen Kayule, from Kabwe, grows cabbages, brinjals (egg plant) potatoes and yellow maize, and keeps poultry,…
The Zambia National Farmers Union (ZNFU) says a powerful cartel is behind the 10% maize export duty. “The cartel wants to control agriculture marketing,” said ZNFU president Jervis Zimba. According to him, the cartel misled government to impose the tax, which gave them an opportunity to make astronomical profits, while…
Price volatility has pushed out thousands of smallholder cotton growers, says the Cotton Board of Zambia (CBZ). According to CBZ, pricing remained a major issue since 2011 when global markets experienced a spike in lint prices. “Lack of a predictable pricing model has contributed to the decrease in the number…
