President Edgar Lungu has proposed the Chishinga Ranch breeding Centre to be one of the items for discussion during his next week Monday Cabinet meeting.
Speaking when he toured the Chishinga breeding Centre in Pambashe area of Kawambwa District, President Lungu called for a discussion involving the Minister of Livestock, Luapula Provincial Minister and the two Permanent Secretaries from the ministry of Livestock and the Province to discuss the Chishinga centre required support for vibrancy.
President Lungu said Luapula is animal disease free, has favorable weather patterns with good rains and abundant water.
He said it is important to promote livestock breeding in the region because the conditions to support livestock breeding were available
The Head of State added that it is equally important to beef up staff at the Centre the animals to be managed well.
He is however disappointed that the Centre has an animal drinker facility which had been disused for the past three years.
Centre Acting Coordinator Moono Mayoba informed the President that the main borehole at the Centre is malfunctional because it needs a K5,000 sparepat.
Area Member of Parliament Ronald Chitotela was equally surprised that the Centre’s main borehole was malfunctioning just because of a K5,000 sparepart which he pledged in the presence of the Head of State that he will provide.
President Lungu is optimistic that the Cente has the potential to revive and regain its initial vision of breeding animals for sale to the locals for onward breeding purposes.
Mr. Chitotela explained that the Centre was started in the UNIP Government with 100,000 hectares of land until when the MMD took over power in 1991 when it was re-demarcated to offer the former employees benefits which has only left 44,000 hectares of land at the moment.
You need to visit the rest of the country. Why you and your MP don’t seem to have an idea of what a common man is experiencing in their localities
The things that power does to the simple mind……………………………………………………
Vodiga Rungu is asking himself why he is not doing what these ranchers are doing and must now abuse cabinet to satisfy his greed.
Good job Edgar my friend.
HH need go help those laymen how to care for bulls.
Lombe – You will be the first one who will “instead of being at State House attending to national issues, he is busy gallivanting around the country”.
Well done. This President is working.
So now the drunken bum is an expert on farming?
Very experienced? Yes, running a kantemba bar in Chawama means he can tell professional farmers with years of experience what they are not doing right!
What a waster. He should go back to things he knows about – Jameson and dancing.
Discussing $500 at cabinet meeting? Comedy. A junior officer can dispense of the issues regarding this institute. Grand standing by the President. Making emotion imprompt decisions to appear as if he is working. Cabinet meetings are suppose to be for bigger issues encompassing the whole economy not one institute. In any case the ministry should have known about the plight of this institute
Is this a one band GRZ ? These usless ministers are only waiting for road contracts, non of them do any work.
Hapless lungu should have fired some one to show he means business instead of promoting mediocrity and failure.
How can you develop if every one waits for lungu to visit ?
The reason why Luapulans cannot rear cattle is that GRZ must give them bakachema to look after the cattle. Unfortunately no kachema will stand being ridiculed all day long. I wonder how Moono Mayoba, the Centre Coordinator, is surviving in the hostile environment.
kikiki any jim and jack can add something to agenda and discuss it. Even a blind man who has never been to school can suggest an item for agenda. The difference between great men and zeros like lungu is that great men actually put to action their aims and plans. While lungu is setting agenda about ranch breeding.. HH is successfully employng people in the ranch business. Why not sit down with the great deserving president of zambia HH and ask him for advice on how he has managed to employ more people than your government has created jobs. Lusaka times you think you are doing this rat a favour by reporting constantly about him, but all you are doing is showing us how useless he is. Get hobbies
Hh to give advice? My foot all he he knows is sabotage so that the country blames the president. Grz has more money that hechi hechi.
Abash HH. Can’t stand that asso. I don’t care for Lungu either
How is the agenda for Cabinet meetings determined? Discussing a distant cattle centre without a working borehole seems so trivial. Are those policies that PF talk about? May I suggest that they include the loudness and smelliness of my farts for potential power generation on the Monday Cabinet agenda?
That’s what is known as consultative leadership. Not always putting up pomp and splendor and make other people annoyed with your I Know It All Attitude. I am hopeful that we shall see a lot of changes in this country in the next five years. I am planning to employ people to so I can support governments efforts.
What consultative leadership when all he does is issue directives!!
Those cows look healthy. Usually when I see such healthy cows they belong to a muzungu but this proves blacks can compete commercially at livestock farming. Forget the mining of our land. Promote farming!
@3 so what exactly has NEZ said actually? I can’t make sense of his post, just total gibberish…
really sad that the UPND has turned some people into donkeys. I mean real donkeys, for what else can you describe NEZ?
The whole of cabinet is going to table this issue really laughable…you wonder why we even have empty tin ministers. Lazy will take any opportunity to wear gum boots and a different hat any day.
To discuss the 5000k that they need to maintain the borehole….ha….ha…
They have enough work on their schedule…..
Small things amuse small minds!!
This is ridiculous.
They can’t manage to raise 5000K for a spare part for the main borehole?
Gross incompetence or negligence.
@Ndobo is it you rebranding this year?
From 100,000 hectares of land to 44,000 hectares of land at the moment…….re-demarcated to offer the former employees benefits ….
REALLY?
WHO are those former employees, i have no doubt this land did not go to former employees.
MY APPEAL TO THE OUR PRESIDENT IS THAT THE LUAPULA, NORTHERN, NORTH WESTERN AND EASTERN PROVINCES MUST BE MADE FARMING AREAS TO FEED THE WHOLE SOUTHERN AFRICA AND NOT ONLY ZAMBIA. AND THESE PROVINCES SHOULD PRODUCE EVEN FOR FOOD EXPORTS. THIS IS APAART FROM TURNING THEM INTO WORLD’S BEST TOURIST DESTINATION. I AM SAYING THIS BECAUSE THERE’S COPIOUS RAINFALL AND THE SOILS ARE VERY FERTILE IN THOSE AREAS. THEY ALSO BORDER POTENTIAL FOOD MARKETS SUCH AS CONGO, BURUNDI, MALAWI AND ZIMBABWE. THE GRZ SHOULD MAKE THESE PROVINCES FOOD PROCESSING FOR THE SAME EXPORT REASONS. LUAPULA PROVINCE PEOPLE MUST RETIRE FROM FISHING TO ADOPT STOKE FARMING. FISHING MUST JUST BE FOR TOURISM.
The last photo there , i wish Bwana Lungu would find time to emerge like that from a slum house in Kalingalinga.These blind PF leaders don’t notice nor seem to care about the very poor places that 70% of Lusaka residents live in.
Why does that guy in blue suite and entering a goat pen look so skinny? All the other people appear well rounded but that guy…not impressive.
That ranch is a waste of time/money just like UNIPs State Farms.
Bembas/Ushis by nature are NOT farmers. Maybe peasant fishing.
I remember when I was young, our Bemba neighbor invited me to go along to their Mabala (field). After walking for hours, I was so disappointed with the joke of a small “field” about 5mx5m had we travelled so far for.
Best is for Tonga expatriates to be moved to Luapula & Northern to take advantage of the favorable land & weather. When a Bemba sees a person ploughing a field using cattle he complains that kuchusha umunani (they r abusing the relish).
Kekeke,Abena Zambia,you call that a ranch,jokers.Busy wasting taxpayers money .Come to Botswana and learn.
Can you believe the area MP did not know what was going on at that ranch. It had to take a Presidential visit for him to realise things were not working well there. So, what does he do with his time in the Constituency? Shouldn’t a government project as big as that be a big part of his job? Some of these MPs are a real disappointment.
Last photo, is that the new state lodge.
So the Presido is not aware that the ranch now belongs to HH?….kikikikikiki!
As cabinet meets can the area MP determine who currently holds the 56000 hectares that was ‘demarcated’ for the former employees? and what activities if any are being carried out on the same?
deforestation via charcoal.
You people Forget easily.
“President Michael Sata is shocked that HH is worth K360 billion despite not having been in formal employment. The UPND leader has four ranches in Choma operating as HH farm and Blukes farm which has 20,000 animals and another three ranches in Kalola, Chibombo district, Mr Hichilema has ranches holding over 90,000 cattle in Central and Southern provinces”.
You should learn from the experts.
Kopala, Zambians have become zombified by PF, they can no longer think intelligently and they wonder why problems are not going away but get worse. They know nothing about expert advice or checking out someone’s track record. Lungu knows nothing about farming or many issues affecting people around, wish somebody can offer him advice but they all scared since they think he is sent by God when he cant even turn zigolo into tea
Mr president ignore people who only know how to call you names (small minds)everything has a beginning bearing in mind luapula was not know for animal farming this is a good beginning and God will also intervene.Where there is a will theirs a way.My only advice is that animal farmers must refrain from chemical methods and stick to natural methods of grazing.People tend to think adding chemicals such as nitrogen is a way forward this only ruins the soil and animals grazing from such land.