The Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (CCPC) Board of Commissioners has approved two mergers in the poultry sector, public relations officer Hanford Chaaba said.

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BARCLAYS Bank Zambia has set aside KR256 000 for promotion and adoption of conservation farming technologies among 180,000 small and medium-scale farmers in 17 districts of Zambia.

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An outbreak of Contagious bovine pleuropneumonia has been reported in cattle in Zambia.

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The African Development Fund (ADF) is to give Zambia an advance loan for the livestock infrastructure support project (LISP) to improve household income of livestock farmers.

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Government says it will put up measures that will prevent cattle diseases from spreading to areas that are currently disease-free, Minister of Agriculture and Livestock Robert Sichinga has said.

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According to Zambia Daily Mail, PAZ executive manager Mathew Ngosa said the country has excess hatching eggs but hatching space has become limited due to closure of most of the small hatcheries.

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The Poultry Association of Zambia (PAZ) says hatcheries are still struggling to meet the surge in festival seasonal demand for chickens despite the increased production of broiler chicks.

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The issue of animal diseases killing cattle in many parts of the country has for a long time been a real thorn in the flesh for Government.

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Zambeef Products Plc is failing to get more than 3,000 tonnes of pigs it requires to process for the market a week because of low supply from the local animal keepers.

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According to Daily Monitor, Dr Emilia Ahimbisibwe, the KCCA senior veterinary officer, said the pork sold in the city is increasingly becoming risky for human consumption, citing the reported unhygienic nature in which meat is being slaughtered, transported and prepared.

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PRESIDENT Michael Sata has directed newly-appointed Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Livestock, Luxon Kazabu to initiate mechanisms that will strengthen animal husbandry to boost the livestock sector in the country.

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The World Bank has loaned Zambia US$50 million, for a twenty year project focussing on small-holder diversification and disease control.

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Despite the poultry industry being a successful story, it needs to ramp up growth to meet soaring domestic demand for poultry products, which is expected to rise over a medium to long-term period.

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The Poultry Association of Zambia says Government erred in granting a permit to South African chain store giants Shoprite Checkers and Wal-Mart-owned Game Stores, to import dressed chickens.

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According to Times of Zambia, reports said Government through the ministry of Agriculture and Livestock had granted an importation permit to Shoprite Checkers and Wall-Mart owned by game stores.

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The Poultry Association of Zambia says Government erred in granting a permit to South African chain store giants Shoprite Checkers and Wal-Mart-owned Game Stores, to import dressed chickens.

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The Zambian veterinary authorities have reported an outbreak of foot and mouth disease in Northern Mwamba Kaka.

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Zambia is investigating the 2007 sale of a 49 percent stake in state-owned Zanaco Bank to Netherlands lender Rabobank , in yet another case that could see a reversal of a deal involving foreigners.

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Southern African seed producer Seed Co Ltd is likely to expand into East and West Africa as the company has potential to grow Africa's agricultural sector, Renaissance Capital said in a research note.

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THE World Bank is working on a pilot programme to strengthen Zambia’s climate change resilience with a net commitment of US$110 million earmarked for the project.

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The World Bank is working on a pilot programme to strengthen Zambia’s climate change resilience with a net commitment of US$110 million earmarked for the project.

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The International Poultry Council (IPC) will hold its next meeting in Africa, for the first time. The meeting take place in Livingstone in Zambia on 16 to 20 October 2011.

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Recently, the European Commission sent a consignment of Foot-and-Mouth Disease (FMD) vaccine to Zambia in order to help the African nation's efforts in fighting an outbreak of the disease in the northern part of the country.

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Scanning the trampled patch of farmland where wheat should be growing. “Wildlife are a big headache here,” he says, kneeling down and running his fingers over the crops crushed by the African cousin of our own red deer.

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The Zambian government is developing a 100 000ha commercial farming block around the town of Serenje in the country’s Central Province. According to Henry Sichembe, deputy director of technical services in Zambia’s agriculture department, this includes a 9 350ha core venture and three supporting commercial farms ranging from 3 000ha to 5 000ha, with the balance spread around large-, medium- and small-scale farms.

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The evening sun is setting on Francis Grogan's Zambian farm and the combine harvesters are finishing their work for the day. Francolins scuttle in their wake and herons pick at the ground where wheat has been growing. But instead of letting the farmland lie fallow until next season, Grogan will soon be planting again.

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The Poultry Association of Zambia (PAZ) has said this year’s inflationary trend is more likely to contribute to the industry’s economic recovery and growth prospects. For the last three months, the country’s inflation rate has hit single digit, a situation which has pleased most stakeholders in the local economy. Inflation for the month of June stood at 7.8 per cent but shot up by one per cent for the month of July mainly due to an increase in both non-food and food products in the Consumer Price Index (CPI).

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The Poultry Association of Zambia (PAZ) says that this year's inflationary trend is more likely to contribute to the industry's economic recovery and growth prospects, according to The Post of Zambia.

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SA poultry producer Astral Foods has expressed its commitment to doing business in Africa by investing further in Zambia, says the Business Report. The JSE-listed company said it had, through Tiger Animal Feeds Zambia, opened TIGERChicks, its new state-of-the-art broiler breeding farm and hatchery in the southern African country.

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South African poultry producer Astral Foods has expressed its commitment to doing business in Africa by investing further in Zambia. In a statement today, the JSE-listed company said it had - through Tiger Animal Feeds Zambia - opened TIGERChicks, its new state-of-the-art broiler breeding farm and hatchery in the southern African country.

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The Poultry Association of Zambia (PAZ) has said the high cost of feed and low poultry consumption trends, as a result of the economic meltdown, took a severe knock on the industry, bringing it down by 40 per cent, reports Times of Zambia. According to the annual financial report for 2009, the industry suffered from high transport costs, making intra-trade difficult, as the cost of medium and long-term finance was expensive. Despite the challenges, chick production was high: 20 million chicks were hatched although only 18.5 million were sold as about 1.5 million chicks died or were destroyed. The total annual egg production remained relatively stable but not only profitable at 324 million eggs.

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PRESIDENT Rupiah Banda has urged the private sector in the southern African region to partner with the governments in agriculture which has for a long time been regarded as a 'government affair'. And Agriculture and Cooperatives Minister Peter Daka has urged banks in the region to consider reducing lending rates to farmers.

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Elleman Mumba makes an unlikely celebrity. He is not a singer nor a footballer - he is a 54-year-old peasant farmer from southern Zambia. Yet he has appeared on the front page of a national newspaper and been interviewed for numerous radio and television programmes.

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Zambia has resumed exports of canned food into southern Africa after reviving a 200-250 tonne agro-processing plant that collapsed during privatisation of state firms in the 1990s.

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"Farming has now become completely different and difficult," laments Dickson Siangoma

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Organic farmers in the US are seeking court rulings against genetically modifying sugar beets.

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The AfDB Zambia Country Office Resident Representative, Freddie Kwesiga, joined by the Ambassador of Finland to Zambia, Mrs. Antila Sinikka and Mr. Abednego Banda, Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperative, on Tuesday 26 January 2010, toured two sites of past and on-going Bank funded Irrigation Projects in Mazabuka in southern Zambia

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The disease which is causing cattle to pass blood urine and stool is reported to have claimed 15 animals so far, according to TheLusakaTimes

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The shortage of cheap and affordable maize in the last 10 months has made its use in poultry feeds increasingly unjustified in economic terms,

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The department of veterinary and livestock development in Mungwi district has cautioned the public against consuming pork sold by unscrupulous people to avoid poisoning. District veterinary officer Stephen Tembo said this in the wake of a spate of thefts in the district involving pigs being administered with an unknown chemical during thefts. The unknown chemical

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Together with its partner organisations, German energy company RWE has launched a Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) project in Zambia as part of a programme to promote climate protection by way of highly efficient biomass stoves.

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Zambia should not relax on avian flu prevention, warns the government. The Zambian government says there is need for the country to continue putting in place measures to effectively prevent and control the spread of the Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI

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The government has challenged the Poultry Association of Zambia (PAZ) to come up with programmes that will push down the prices of stock feed for small-scale farmers in rural areas to benefit. Times of Zambia

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YF general manager Sven Pihlblad stated that the woes of the past eight months experienced by the poultry industry were now a thing of the past. “Egg production has returned to profitability largely due to lowered stock feed prices to levels that existed a year ago and the improved egg

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The Veterinary Department in Mazabuka has embarked on the vaccination of 20,000 head of cattle against Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) to stop the spread of the disease to other parts of the district

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The Veterinary Department in Mazabuka has embarked on the vaccination of 20,000 head of cattle against Foot and Mouth Disease

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Poultry ouptut and consumption have fallen significantly due to the global economic difficulties. Poultry sector

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The Poultry Association of Zambia has set a target output of 32 million chickens by next year. The Times of

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The $450,000 laboratory for detecting Genefied Modified Mechanisms (GMOs) in Zambia is near completion at the Seed Control and Certification Institute (SCCI) in Lusaka. SCCI Deputy Director Fransico Miti says the laboratory situated in Chilanga area is expected to start operating early next month (August). Mr. Miti told ZANIS in an interview

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Poultry production in Zambia has fallen 35% in the past 6 months due mainly to a drop in demand, as well as high poultry and livestock feed prices.

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Poultry production has fallen by 35 per cent, caused by a drop in demand and high feed prices.

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