The Land Bank will now take respected mentors into consideration when deciding whether to fund emerging farmers. During the African Farmer’s Association of South Africa (Afasa) annual congress in Johannesburg, Portia Zulu, provincial manager of Land Bank, said emerging farmers must overcome different challenges. Zulu was part of a panel…
The retail price of maize in Zambia has dropped from K120/25kg [K4 800/ton] to K73/25kg [K2 920/ton] for white maize, and from K90/25kg [K3 600/ton] to K67/25kg [K2 680/ton] for yellow (brown) maize. President of the Millers Association of Zambia (MAZ) Andrew Chintala said the price drop was due to…
The ripple effect of the South African credit downgrade by the American credit agency, Standard and Poor’s (S&P) to below-investors grade or junk status, is to impact African countries and their agricultural sectors. According to Wessel Lemmer, senior economist at Absa Agribusiness, the sovereign downgrade by international credit agencies will…
Some farmers in Eastern Province got ‘bonus’ inputs in the latest snag which hit the Farmer Input Support Programme (FISP) e-voucher payment system. Chipata district commissioner Kalunga Zulu told africanfarming.com authorities became aware of certain farmers getting inputs twice, after being alerted by agro dealers in the district. An investigation…
President Edgar Lungu has said he would not tolerate further delays in farming input deliveries. The president warned that he would act against civil servants who did not comply with his directive to finish the task of delivering and distributing inputs. Lungu said he was making public servants responsible for…
