The Poultry Association of Zambia has described the decision by the Lusaka City Council (LCC) to ban the rearing of Chickens in residential areas as a political time bomb.
Association Executive Director Matthews Ngosa says the council should be conscious of the implication of such a decision, stating that the timing is wrong.
Mr Ngosa says the Lusaka City Council should ask themselves the question why the law which has been in existence for a long time has failed.
He says the council should understand that people have no jobs and that their only source of livelihood is through poultry production.
He wonders how the country will be able to reduce poverty when the levels of employment are extremely low, and people are being stopped from using their initiative to sustain their families through chicken rearing.
Mr. Ngosa has since appealed to the Lusaka city council to do its home work by engaging stakeholders.
LCC IS right rearing chickens should be done in farms not residential areas. amafi yankoko yalanunka sana during rain season. thumbs up LCC. PAZ should give its members land to do those dirty businesses
@WC,
enjoy your stay wherever you live.
Chickens do not have amafi, only human beings have.
How many Zambians have access to farms?
There are other serious issues that need addressing instead of spending their energies on non-issues. Even in Europe people do rear chickens in their back yards; and presumably the law being invoked is inherited from the colonial days, when the architects of the said law have long since dispensed with it.
@GUNDIXY
Thats absolutely true. Even me I have a few chickens in my garden .
75 % of these chickens and eggs come from back yard peri-urban farms. So, the ban means more chickens from SA or those kept and administered with ARVs.
Thank you Ba Ngosa.
If this PF govt is really ba CHIMBWI NO PLAN. They allow street vending, but want to restrict a legit business to the farms?
Spot on! Let them stop the filthy street vending first.
Ba Ngosa do you remember bird flu and its deeds? dont just yap anyhow banee. Reason
Do you also remember the cholera outbreak? It can cause havoc again especially with the street vending which has been legalized by PF govt.
iwe ngosa when did growing chicken became an initiative….?? let pipo explore other businesses and stop coping businesses from the neighbours. only interprenuers can do business & not every jim & jack……….kudos pf govt
Guilty as charged. I used to love keeping chickens when home (PaZeD) even in Romania they do the same backyard farming. we kept chicken odors and flies away by changing litter constantly twice a month, keeping the chicken run dry and used a chemical called dyfly, the chemical is odorless it attracts and kill flies 100%, we baited rats with sonar mouse trap and made sure that no feed spilt on the floor to allow rats feast on it and flourish. Our neighbors never complained. the yards were big am talking about Luangwa Township in Kabwe, the once ma yard until Chiluba showed us the hard side of Life. it was sustainable baane. develop guidelines as to the numbers in relation to yardsize, prescribe how to keep the chicken runs clean.
Exactly What was on my thought but,
For me I would consider chicken keeping as a life saving venture. I know more than ten widows who survive on this business.
Let the council be wise enough by guiding these people on how best this business should be done at home or provide land for them.
Let them register everyone who is doing it. levy them and educate them coz it can bring health problems if not handled well.
anyway my vote is 50 50 on this rule. for backyard farmers & the council
Enjoy wisely.
Mad PF and rotten thinking in this party. Why ban chicken rearing when citizens cannot afford other protein?
I lost my well paying job some 12 years ago. Since then we have been reaing chickens at home to supplement my humble salary. As a family we have managed to send our children to school and colleges now with this ban in place how are going to survive. LCC should not just act with out reasoning we all need to survive. We cant be PT cadres for ever. There is age limit factor.In some case some people who lost jobs or retired more than 5 years ago have not been paid their benefits including LCC itself. LCC be serious on certain issues of death and life.
The smell from the neighbors is so bad …they pollute the surrounding environment and they do nothing about it. Please if you cant control the smell , then I say keep it up LCC.
Peace and Prosperity to Mother Zambia.
let us observe the law, keeping chicken in residential areas is not allowed.if we allow chicken rearing,we may as well allow pig and cattle rearing in our residential areas. we are already failing to enforce this same law now. let farmers rear these chickens you are depriving farmers of there market and revenue
Law; what law? Laws under current enirnment? Law is not selective. As far as I remember, street vending is against the law. In my opion, street vending is a bigger public nuisance than rearing chicken in a private controlled housed back yard.
Most chicken supplied is from back yard, this will therefore cause a double increase on the price of chickens to the already increased prices. Most parents have used this business to take their kids to school, pay rentals etc. when parents begin to fail to take children to school, drug abuse, prostitution and stealing will be the after effect of that decision. Even if people were to get lands, most of the lands given is too small and only cadres nowdays have access to good land.
Nothing like time Bomb, they will get used to it and find other means of survival, the same way a child gets used to being weaned is the same way people will get used to the new Law, after all it is only for their own benefit!
LCC have got it backwards. Instead of banning chicken rearing, all they are supposed to do is issue guidelines on how to rear chickens in urban centres, i.e.: –
• How many per sq meter,
• What roof cover and drainage is necessary during rainy season to keep the floor/ ground from getting waterlogged,
• How to make organic fertilizer to a given specification and bag it into 50kgs for sale,
• How to make nutritious stock feed to produce healthy chicken and boost someone’s business,
• How to do simple bookkeeping in order to run a business more successfully
..etc..etc.. That’s the way forward for our Country.
you r correct, i agree with you
Whenever men and women take the law into their hands, the loser is the law and when the law loses, freedom languishes! The law is the law! Weldone LCC!
Mwaitaya ba LCC. Do you know what you are doing? Just wait
Law is law it’s made by men not angels it cn be amended especialy sily ones like this one