President Hakainde Hichilema has urged Export Trading Group (ETG) to advance cashew production in Western Province
ZANIS reports that Mr Hakainde explained that this is because the cashew nut sector has the potential to turn around the economy of the country.
President Hichilema said this when he inspected the Mabumbu Crocodile farm situated 17 kilometres away from the central business area.
And ETG Programmes Officer Nyambe Luhila said to meet international markets, there was a need to improve the cashew nut sector through improved technologies.
Mr Luhila said the current trees in Mabumbu were of low quality and could only be beneficial to small and medium enterprises.
He revealed that his company had employed a different strategy to ensure that a good seed variety is planted by farmers across the region that would be able to attract large enterprises in the cashew value chain.
And a cashew agronomist, Francis Boma revealed that the cashew nut business was being hampered by diseases such as pests which were expensive to control.
Mr Boma said ETG has engaged in disease control and management through the development of pesticides in order to boost the cashew sector in Western Province.
Francis Boma revealed that the cashew nut business was being hampered by diseases such as pests which were expensive to control.
How can a Pest be a Disease? I thought pests causes diseases. LT do simple read through and edit before publishing
We are at war with our owner GRZ You are not displaying security you are displaying uncertainty. With men in camouflage clothes. UPND administration you are sending mixed signals.
“don’t imitate my behavior but obey my instructions.”
“As humans, we find ways
to lower uncertainty about one another
so that we can exchange value.
Now, one of the first people
to really explore the idea
of institutions as a tool in economics
to lower our uncertainties
about one another
and be able to do trade
was the Nobel economist Douglass North.”Bettina Warburg
IMF Are you reading this?
@Daniel Chisebwe: I thot American was a place that even dull become intelligent when they arrive there, but clealy not in your case; Look at the excuses given by these Cashew farmers & leaders? very very typical of a Zambian,be it a farmer or a marketeer or whoever – All very very excellent at identifiying & pointing at problems and non of them had a single solution in mind. Very typical of Zambians, In as much as GRZ can come with pest control measures, these fox ll simply come up with a different excuse. You cant help people like this. Cos such Zambians are not willing to help themselves either. How can pest control be expensive? Isnt the feed,the ploughing, labor thats more expensive? Can you not be creative and devise natural means of pest control? So that GRZ sees your efforts & wud…
And these are the type of groupings that CDF is coming to. with such minsets? which means when they receive the CDF they will simply go and buy pesticides the entire amount.Then come back complain again that the CDF money was small or come back with a different problem altogether – You cant grow any economy in the world like. Proactive minds who are more creative or invention oriented are needed. Not the begging bowl cycle kind of personalities.
@Jonathan Mutaware-Formerly Step-Aside. When leaving where Secret Service wear plain clothes to low uncertainty Even dull People according to your definition they can have a decent Leaving.
Help to change GRZ for all Zambians.
“Urges”, “warns” , that is all he ever does but without any action. You will struggle to list one tangible achievement under this govt, that is why upnd bloggers spend all their time blaming a party that is no longer in power.
Everytime a President goes to WP its the same talk about cashew nuts …do they not know that a small handful of salted cashew nuts in Europe costs £2 can you imagine how much revenue that would bring in if we did the processing and packaging ourselves and shipped to Asda, Lidl, Aldi and Tescos? If I was President I would have a PS for Cashew nut production..much of our cashew nut is sent to India as a raw material this is what these Trading Groups do just exporting raw materials.
Wake up HH7!!
Everytime a President goes to WP its the same talk about cashew nuts …do they not know that a small handful of salted cashew nuts in Europe costs £2 can you imagine how much revenue that would bring in if we did the processing and packaging ourselves and shipped to Asda, Lidl, Aldi and Tescos? If I was President I would have a PS for Cashew nut production..much of our cashew nut is sent to India as a raw material this is what these Trading Groups do just exporting raw materials.
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LT sort out your modernation ..even an informative sober comment has to await moderation.
Zambian companies always have excuses for
Not performing.They have excuse for anything and everything.All they want is
Foreign investors but again when they start
Prospering we start complaining.
Yes change is for all Zambians, but if you are myopic dont pull us down your mediocre level,cos then the cycle of mediocrity will just continue and continue and there wont be development,but hunger and hunger. As always. The GRZ shdnt allow that to happen-they must be very rough and harsh to such personalities with inferior mindsets so that these mindsets pull themselves up to normal standards. GRZ, whatever you do, pls dont tolerate mediocricy! Some people learn alone ,others learn better while in prison – so cater for everyone pls but no favors or mercy – for now we ve a huge debt to settle.
Help to change GRZ the more you read the more you start finding out that we are not against GRZ but we are against the president people that surround the president and the president is busy protecting them.
Now you are calling them mediocrity after they give you five years Mandates.