Irate smallholder farmers want to know how K2 million, which was allocated in the 2017 budget under the Emergent Farmers Assistance Fund to help them mechanise their farms, was spent. At least 1 000 smallholder farmers were to benefit from the money. Scores of farmers who spoke to Africanfarming.com on…
The Indaba Agricultural Policy and Research Institute (IAPRI), a great critic of government’s Farmer Input Support Programme (FISP) has endorsed the rolling out of a fully-fledged electronic voucher (e-voucher) system. The agricultural think-tank says complete implementation will be a much more cost-effective way of providing input subsidies to Zambian farmers…
This could be the year of reform and renewed growth in African economies. Dr. Martyn Davies, Deloitte Africa’s managing director for emerging markets and Africa, said that structural reform of economies could be one of the mega trends of the year. “Usually this is impossible without a crisis. The shock…
Over-fishing and unsustainable fishing methods have led to the decline of Zambian fish stocks according to a recent report released by the Indaba Agricultural Policy Research Institute (IAPRI). Falling fish stocks are directly related to a decline in the per capita fish consumption, which has dropped from 12kg/person/annum to 10,3kg/person/annum.…
Zambia’s inflation rate for November 2016 has improved to a single digit of 8.8 percent from 12.5 percent. But that is hardly good news for consumers because the price of the nation’s staple food has taken an upward swing in the same period. “A comparison of retail prices between October…
