Visiting German Federal Minister of Food and Agriculture Christian Schmidt has inspected the new state of the art brewing plant for National Breweries financed by funds from Germany.
Mr Schmidt inspected the plant’s state –of- art factory to see how small scale farmers and Zambian companies are benefiting from German funded projects.
The new factory located along Sheki Sheki road includes brewing facilities, packing lines as well as laboratories supplied by german firms.
Its’ production capacity has been increased from 1 million hector liters of shake shake per year to 5.1 million hector liters..
Mr. Schmidt was accompanied by Zambian Breweries group Technical Director Franz Schlepping during the tour of the brewing facility.
Mr. Skipping however said the new plant still under construction will be efficient and cost effective once completed.
About 200 workers are set to be employed once construction of the new plant is complete.
5.1 Million Hector litres??? Ma ma ma It will be shakers through out. The poor will get poorer because even the little they have will be used to buy this commodity.
Twanwa again! Knowing the combination of Germans and our very own Eddie, i can assure you of serious booze time in Zed.
Yeah, get them drunk then they know not what they are doing – is this really something to be proud about? Is this agro-industry? I suppose aggro – LOL !!
Tell me the ingredients in chibuku and I will tell you if it is agro-industry or not. The ‘beer’ (more appropriately alcohol) industry, in its various forms, is a money spinner and big employer the world over.
@vizungu: have you checked out what social costs alcoholism or addiction in general cause world wide? ati money-spinner, in stupor mwana, the end-game is the same: absenteeism, accidents, degeneration and collapse of social fabric, try cassava plantations, that’s food and that IS agro-industry! Not factory-farms etc Food should NEVER have become an INDUSTRIAL PRODUCT – look at the environmental cost 🙂 But still, I get yo drift mate 🙂
and people say our president is wasting tax-payers money on foreign trips? Here is the evidence of how our president has priortised developmental issues. more of such investments to come
When was this project planned, financed and implemented? Way before EL became caretaker. The facility is already commissioned and EL has had no HAND in it.
Don’t Lie EL was never part of this. This was in Mwanawasa’s Time.
Hector liters Awe sure nimbama
I NEED THAT 2OL TODAY
We used to call Shakes “German Coffee” back in them school days in Ndola.
Please tell us how small scale farmers and Zambian companies are benefiting from German funded projects instead of showing us photos of the same thing….a German touring a RSA owned brewery in Lusaka is not something to shout about when you take into account that these people come from regions that supply the whole of Europe with premium lager brands.
My take on this too! The american natives were led into subjugation using “holy water” and here are some fully “stolz” that Jerry is brewing “high-tech” brews for them to quaff and remain forever alcoholics! Muzalila na njala amwewo !!
Ulichikopo jay jay. What are the ingredients in shake shake, if its no maize?
So if the main ingredient is corn maize how is the German funds helping as everyone grows maize?
Warning: Zambians please don’t be cheated. Those Germans don’t drink shake-shake and neither do they eat Hangarian sausages. Please subject those ingredients in the so called beers to thorough testing for GMO POISONS. These guys look happy, smiling and accommodating yet, very dangerous pipo. Don’t say l never warned you…
EL missing….why?