Neria Investment, a Zambian agro-commodity trading company, has already started importing fertiliser for the 2020/2021 farming season.
Neria Investment General Manager for Eastern region Martin Chaikatisha said the company is expected to distribute fertiliser to 225,000 farmers across the country during the coming farming season.
Mr. Chaikatisha is however concerned about the in-transit security for it 4,500 trucks ferrying fertiliser from Beira in Mozambique into Zambia through Chanida border.
He said this is because the company has not received any help from security wings to find people who last year hijacked three of its trucks and stole 1,800 bags of fertiliser worth K600, 000.
Mr. Chaikatisha noted that while the fertiliser company uses GPS monitoring system on its trucks, security remains a concern over its convoy of trucks ferrying fertiliser from Beira.
Importing fertilizers for maize? Zambia importing fertilizers…. Please let this coronavirus pass so the PF can start moving out of government houses.
Does it mean that Zambia has no capacity to produce fertiliser honestly, this is serious open NCZ and create employment for the people, even upto now the president doesn’t have a vision surely.
why not pa kafue…NCZ.
Very laughable, a country that cannot feed itself and cannot even supply its own fertiliser. Dependency syndrome runs deep in this govt.
IF,ME I WERE KZ AND THE OTHER CLONS I WOULD SEAT AND REFLECT ON THE TRUTH HIGHLIGHTED AND TIMELY ADVISE TO THE PRESIDENT NOT JUST TALKING ON THINGS I DON’T UNDERSTAND CZ ALL OF THESE CHAPS BENE KZ,RED LIP,BOWMAN,KAMBA,SILIYA ETC ARE TINS WHICH MAKE ALOT OF UNNECESSARY NOISE. TALKING CHEAPLY AND THINKING ZAMBIANS WILL BUY THERE NONSENSE WORDS.. WISDOM, CAN BEGOTTEN FROM ANYTHING. Y,SHOULD THEY BE IN OFFICE FOREVER AND FOREVER?TIME COMES WHEN U RETIRE AND FOCUS ON OTHER THINGS. THEY BELIEVE THAT THEY IS LIFE BEYOND LEADERSHIP NOT U CHEAP FOOLS WHO DON’T HAVE ANYTHING TO DO. ALL YOUR TIME IS MAKING NOISE. AND THEY IS NO LIFE FOR U AFTER ECL. THEY IS ALOT TO DO. U ARE CHEAP FOOLS.