The Zambian Government and the People’s Republic of China have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to start exporting honey from Zambia to China.
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Joseph Malanji said government will ensure that people that will get involved in bee keeping are empowered and capacity built to support the new market.
Mr. Malanji said this in Mwinilunga district when he officiated at this year’s Chisemwa cha Lunda traditional ceremony of Senior Chief Kanong’esha.
Meanwhile, Mr. Malanji has encouraged chiefdoms in the country to establish traditional museums in order to preserve local culture.
ZANIS reports that the Minister stated that, with careful documentation and art fact presentation, a culture can be recorded and remembered as well as being shared and understood by those from different cultural backgrounds.
He said preservation of traditional daily life is important to secure cultures from the alarming rate of disappearance for the benefit of future generations.
Mr. Malanji has also reiterated government’s call for concerted efforts by everyone in the fight against early marriages.
He said despite the Zambian constitution prohibiting the vice, it has continued to rob thousands of girls in the country of their childhood rights and privileges.
And speaking earlier, Senior Chief Kanong’esha applauded government for various developmental projects in the area.
He cited the Mwinilunga hospital project, upgrading of township roads to bituminous status, distribution of electricity to rural parts of the districts and many other projects that have changed the face of the area.
The traditional leader, who spoke through Chisemwa cha Lunda royal establishment chairperson, Anthony Samuhandu, however, appealed to government to expedite the completion of the unfinished projects such as the hospital and township roads.
NOW THEY WANT OUR BEES. THEY KNOW THAT OUR HONEY IS HEALTHIER THAN FAKE THINGS THAT THEY EAT IN CHINA. PLEASE TELL THEM WE DO NOT HAVE ENOUGH HONEY TO EXPORT TO THEIR COUNTRY. LET THEM BUY OUR SUGAR AT FIVE TIMES HIGHER THAN IT IS IN ZAMBIA
Hahaha ati honey? Nimukula bakalasenda
How much is a gallon or akakunkubuti of Zambian honey? I like numbers.
Can we repay Zambian loans from honey? I am sure our fresh-taste water from Luapula will fetch more money than honey.
UBUCHI TO GO ON CHINESE MARKET IS A TABOO, THIS AMBASSADOR IS JUST SCORING OWN GOALS TO SHOW HE IS WORKING OTHERWISE ITS A DEADEND MOU LIKE MICHOPO FOR SAUDI ARABIA , NEXT MOU PLEASE…………LOADING
LET US CHASE THE CHINESE TO STATE HOUSE. THEY ARE PESTS. NO WONDER IDI AMIN CHASED THE INDIANS FROM UGANDA. WE NEED SPACE TO OURSELVES
It will lose HAGAIN!
EVERYDAY IT IS CHINA AND YOU REFUSE WHEN PEOPLE SAY YOU HAVE BEEN COLONISED
Very Good… now these are stories we want!
Not low voltage citizens claiming to be patriotic Zambians overpricing fire tracks and contracts consigning their citizens to perpetual poverty.
Now as you may be doing already! go out and get some more!
Well done on this one! Let’s go!
Let’s develop this thing! It will NEVER be president! While it is busy discrediting Zambia and our tasty honey, Zambia will be busy developing and it will lose HAGAIN!
UPND is slowly graduating from tribalism to xenophobia…..
What of the pending issue with the ban regarding export ban to RSA ..have the samples reached Germany yet?
Apparently $80 million worth of Mukula was exported to paymasters in China but our govt only recorded $900,000…surely if we had serious leaders and crooks this would be an issue.
why are we failing to trade with our fellow african countries and yet we have a huge market just within africa. Do you need a chinese to make you feel better and financially stable? why not keep our wealth within african borders and uplift our continent. Pf are devils
Everything is China you mean Zambia has no expertise to start processing honey locally to create work for our people exporting honey to China is a no for me
Is it honey or money?