By KENNEDY MUPESENI – AFRICAN food imports is likely to swell to more than US$50 billion from the current US$30 billion import annual bill due to global economic disruptions the COVID -19 spread is causing...

By CHATULA KANGALI – MOBE Sugar Company has secured title for 17,000 hectares of land for the establishment of a sugar plantation in Ngabwe District, Central Province. The company is set to invest 150 million...

By KENNEDY MUPESENI – THE Policy Monitoring and Research Centre (PMRC) has urged the Bank of Zambia (BoZ) to curtail Dollarisation of the economy to stabilise the local currency. The think-tank said the Central Bank...

By MAIMBOLWA MULIKELELA – ZAMBEEF Products Plc has disposed off its Sinazongwe farm at a cost of US$10 million to Chenguang Biotech (Zambia) Agri-Dev Limited. The company has formally completed the disposal of Sinazongwe farm...

By CHATULA KANGALI – THE construction of Small and Medium Entrepreneurship (SME) workshops at the Ndola Industrial yard has been completed. Sub-Sahara Gemstone Exchange Industrial Park (SGE) chairperson and president Phesto Musonda said the workshops...

By CHATULA KANGALI – POULTRY feed prices have continued to rise on the local market due to short supply of maize and the local  currency depreciation, the Poultry Association of Zambia( PAZ) has  said. PAZ...

By CHATULA KANGALI – THE Zambia Association of Manufacturers(ZAM) has welcomed  the  presidential  directive to the  ministry of  Commerce, Trade and Industry to ensure that chain store  supermarkets  stock  locally produced goods,  saying it will boost the...

By MAIMBOLWA MULIKELELA – THE current business licensing regime will remain, as Government urges the business community to propose other workable measures on how to reduce cost of doing business. It was not workable for...

By MAIMBOLWA MULIKELELA  and CHATULA KANGALI  – THE Ministry of Local Government should consider scrapping off or revising some of the business licences to save companies from collapsing as the country fights the COVID-19 downturn....

By MAIMBOLWA MULIKELELA  – THE Bank of Zambia (BoZ) says efforts are being made to include the Zambian Kwacha as a settlement currency on the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Integrated Regional Electronic Settlement System...