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...

By CHARITY MOONGA – THE Zambia Railways Limited (ZRL) has, through the Zambian Government, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with a Chinese firm for the construction of a railway line from Chipata to Mpika...

By CHARITY MOONGA – AFRICAN governments should urgently put policies and infrastructure in place to ensure increased fertiliser access and use to raise agricultural productivity. The African Fertiliser and Agribusiness Partnership (AFAP) says this will...

INDO Zambia Bank (IBZ) is a shining example of a successful joint venture between the Zambian Government and another country as it has grown into a reliable player in the banking sector. In terms of...