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conservation

SA farmer Cosmas Xaba investigates options in conservation a...

  26th April 2018

Cosmas Dumezweni Xaba (50) is a family man with a wife, 7 children and 1 grandchild. He retired from the mines in 2008 to come and farm, growing crops and rearing livestock. He strongly believes in doing things for the well-being of his family. He is a pastor at a…

anthrax; catarrhal; bovine; disease; rabies

Foot and mouth outbreak in Zambia’s Central Province

  23rd April 2018

Visitors to the Agritech Expo Zambia 2018 at Chisamba in Central Province entered a declared foot and mouth disease (FMD) zone en route to the expo recently. The affected areas of Chisama and Chibombo had 5 000 recorded cases of FMD by the 16 April, according to The Times of…

farmers

Agritech Expo Zambia 2018: Small-scale farmers and finding s...

  20th April 2018

Kingsley Kachenjela, founded the popular Facebook group Small Scale Farmers (Farming as business) (397 000 followers) to provide farmers with a platform to access and share relevant agricultural information. A man who believes that action must follow talk, Kingsley spoke about finding markets for farmer produce, at Zambia’s recent Agritech…

Husband-and-wife team on their way to mega-farmer status

  16th April 2018

Mr. Alexander and mrs. Agatha Tendai Matuka may have started out as small-scale farmers in Zambia’s Central Province some years back, but their joint passion for agriculture, keen business sense and ambition to excel has propelled them into commercial status in a short time. At their current rate of expansion…

cattle

Agritech Expo Zambia 2018: Cattle Wealth Management Firm tal...

  5th April 2018

Read an interview with Joel Chitambala, a Director at Cattle Wealth Management Firm, an innovative livestock management company and a new exhibitor at the upcoming Agritech Expo Zambia in Chisamba from 12 to 14 April. “Many Zambians are passionate about cattle but do not have land, resources or the time…

Agritech; expo

Agritech Expo Zambia 2018: PwC talks farming and financing

  3rd April 2018

Read an interview with Andrew Chibuye, Partner, Risk Assurance Services, PwC Zambia, and a moderator of the roundtable on “Viable finance: Identifying the right lending schemes, packages and partners” during the Farmers Preview Day at the upcoming Agritech Expo Zambia in Chisamba on 12 April. “My vision for agriculture is for…

agriculture; agribusiness; agricultural

Data – the fertiliser that will feed Africa’s agricu...

  3rd April 2018

Everywhere we look, technology is being touted as the enabler of a new era of African agricultural prosperity. The exciting world of possibilities offered by blockchain, IoT (the Internet of Things), machine learning and the like has made companies, governments and policy-makers sit up and take notice of how such…

water

African Utility Week to focus on water solutions for Africa

  27th March 2018

The 18th annual, multi-award winning African Utility Week, taking place from 15 to 17 May in Cape Town, South Africa, will, amongst other topics, strongly focus on water challenges on the continent. Furthermore, issues like investment needed in water solutions by the public and private sectors to enable universal access,…