A senior citizen has called on Government to budget for the total Zambian land audit in the next budget so that Zambia could plan effectively on its land utilization for productivity.
Mr. Humphrey Ngulube told ZANIS in Ndola today that it was important for Government to institute a land audit with the help of donors for effective planning.
He said the nation needed to know the amount of land that was idle, partially being used and effectively being used.
He said it was important also to know the soil types and how they could best be utilised in fighting poverty through food production.
Mr. Ngulube added that there was need to ascertain the total useful land hectarage as a country, province by province which should further be broken into districts.
He said there was a lot of land between towns and provinces which was either idle or under utilised and the amounts of this land was not yet on Government books.
Mr. Ngulube advised that it should be public information on how much land was in reserve forests, game areas and traditional hands so that the national planning process for development should capture the whole picture.
He said if Government had on its books the total land which was not being utilised, it could be easy to direct and redirect investments coming from outside to needy areas.
He proposed that land audit should also become a periodic Government exercise like the taking of population census so that after every ten years, the nation needed to have current data on the actual land use.
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Well said otherwise I may die without being landed
:)>- stories are coming in fast and furious
A comprehensive land audit and forest inventory are a must if we are serious to develop Zambia in an orderly and efficient manner. Even though these are very costly exercises they are worth undertaking for purposes of planning and development. How do you manage a resource that you have no information about in terms of how much land is in traditional leaders, on leasehold, ownership by gender, rate at which conversions are taking place from customary tenure to leasehold, where is this happening etc is very useful information for planning and investment purposes. But unfortunately no one has this information including the Surveyor General or Commissioner of Lansds at Ministry of Lands.
The citizen’s call is justified.
Humphrey Ngulube told ZANIS in Ndola today that it was important for Government to institute a land audit with the help of donors for effective planning…..
THIS IS BECAUSE ONE DOES NOT TRUST HIS OWN PEOPLE TO PLAN FOR ZED,,,,
TITLE DEEDS SHOULD NOT TAKE THREE YEARS..
These are the good ideas government should embrace. A total land audit might reveal that most of ourland is either idle or in the hands of people who are not even Zambians. Brilliant idea and let us go for it.
Plz LT keep pressure on stories so that it is not a feeler but results should be seen, mule konkesha mpaka fye action ya moneka. [-(
let me put mu glasses on and read
the land has already been shared ba saa!!!
Ba Honey #9 ya shani, mwalikwata akayanda kama glasses eko mubelengelamo?
KK already traded part of the Zambian land for an Ocean somewhere in the western world ba saa. He wanted to own an Ocean like other strong leaders like Mugabe who owns shares in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans basankwa
No need for land audit. There is no more land in zambia now. Glaydis Nyirongo went with it to prison.
Ilyashi ya Land ya likosa sana pa Zedi.
Title deed is like a dog’s horn. (akuti nyanga ya galu).
Keep on Calling :-c
All the fertile land has been taken by Zambeef and the white settlers from Zim who are now running away with loans from Zanaco and Barclays
Good …hope this idea will be implemented. We must know about the land which has been given to these fake investors. They are coming to make countries in Zambia while where they come from they own not even a plot. Audit the land you have my support. [-x[-x[-x[-x
GOVT SHOULD BE CAREFUL THE WAY ITS DISTRIBUTING LAND TO FOREIGNERS,OTHERWISE IT WILL POINTLESS TO BE a ZAMBIAN WITHOUT LAND.
The govt should also find ways of creating new jobs by improving settlement schemes to empower citizens. **==(~~)**==
Land audit for what? If we cannot make use of the available land Zambians already have.Lets talk about increasing crop yield.There is no land crisis in Zambia.
Power to the People!
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