By KENNEDY MUPESENI – THE Government wants small-scale miners in Zambia to be more organised, for them to attract funding. Small-scale miners can improve and contribute to the economic development of the country, provided they...

By MAIMBOLWA MULIKELELA – ZAMBIA has made its first export of coffee beans to Japan, marking the revival of the country’s coffee industry which was at peak 10 years ago. The first shipment of Zambian...

By HELEN ZULU – HARVESTPLUS is targeting 600,000 farming households to adopt orange maize in Zambia by 2020. HarvestPlus Country Manager for Zambia, Eliab Simpungwe said Harvestplus expected at least 600, 000 farming households to...

By CHATULA KANGALI – THE Zambia National Farmers Union (ZNFU) has welcomed the move to increase the price of a 50 kilogramme bag of maize by K5 for this year’s crop marketing season. Millers Association...

By MAIMBOLWA MULIKELELA – PEMBE Flour Mills Zambia Limited has recorded more than 45 per cent drop in its production as a result of the power deficit. Pembe Flour Mills started operations in Zambia three...

By KENNEDY MUPESENI – THE Zambia Bureau of Standards (ZABS) has urged importers and suppliers of electric cables to ensure that their products comply with the Zambian Standard ZS 688 which gives specifications, requirements and...

THE scope of entrepreneurism in this country has enlarged since the country’s economy was liberalised in the early 1990s. Many thanks should go to the Government which was responsible for opening up the economy to...

By JUDITH NAMUTOWE – GIVEN that more than one billion people rely on fish as their primary source of protein, most of them located in developing countries, farming is often an attractive practice to them,...

By JUDITH NAMUTOWE – THE African Consumer Union (ACU) has called on African governments to protect their economies from a surge of sub-standard products. ACU vice-president Muyunda Ililonga said the union had observed that the...

By KENNEDY MUPESENI – PRODUCTION in key economic sectors will stabilise in the last half of 2016 because of the consensus on the fiscal and policy isues, Standard Bank Group has projected. At the start...