By JAMES KUNDA- THE Government has allocated 300 hectares of land for the construction of tailing dams and the sinking of an underground shaft by NFCA Mining Plc in Mufulira which will create 5,000 jobs....

By BRIAN HATYOKA- TEN households living near Zambezi River in Namanjanga Village of Mwandi District in Western Province, have developed 10 fish ponds and stocked them with 2,000 fish limbs to empower themselves economically. The...

By JAMES KUNDA THE African Development Bank (AfDB) has approved a total of US$31.1 million grant under the Global Agriculture and Food Security Programme (GAFSP) to support the Zambian agricultural value chain development project. AfDB...

By MAIMBOLWA MULIKELELA, JUDITH NAMUTOWE  and JAMES KUNDA – THE ZAMBIA Association of Chambers of Commerce and Industry (ZACCI) has prodded Government to apply maximum fiscal discipline in the management of the US$1 billion sovereign...

By KENNEDY MUPESENI – JIHAI Agricultural Company is in the process of setting up an agro-technological park within the Lusaka East Multi-facility Economic Zone (LE-MFEZ). The park will be used for demonstration of agricultural techniques...

By MAIMBOLWA MULIKELELA – THE Development Bank of Zambia (DBZ) will this year release about K400 million for onward lending to Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), managing director Jacob Lushinga has said. Mr Lushinga said...

By JAMES KUNDA – LATEST market updates indicate that the Kwacha saw some marginal gains against the dollar in thin trading on Tuesday. Interbank dollar supply in the mid-morning session saw the Kwacha touch a...

ZSIC General Insurance Company has said small-scale and commercial farmers in the country should embrace crop insurance to prevent loss in case of drought, fire or other calamities. ZSIC GeneralInsurance Company corporate agriculture specialist Emmanuel Malata said the farmers should  make use of...

FARMERS should take advantage of the availability of chemicals used to destroy weeds in maize and other fields in the country. BASF country  manager  Jeremiah Shakubanza said  the introduction  of the chemical, stellar star, on...

By KENNEDY MUPESENI- THE Kwacha has continued to show some semblance of stability in the last one week trading opening this week at K6.22 and K6.30 against the United States dollar. The currency has been...