“MAIZE HURTING LIVESTOCK FARMING”

The Indaba Agricultural Policy Compare Institute -IAPRI- says emphasis and promotion of maize manufacturing has been detrimental to the event of fish and livestock sectors.
IAPRI Government Director Probability Kabaghe says Zambia has for lengthy invested in maize manufacturing with a surplus peaceful recorded even with droughts and military worms.
He says the country now desires to invest more in fisheries and livestock.
Talking throughout the opening of a fisheries and livestock symposium in Lusaka on the present time, Mr. Kabaghe critical that the assembly has been known as to heighten the significance of fish and livestock and grain manufacturing.
And Minister of Fisheries and Farm animals Kampamba Mulenga has critical the necessity to lengthen fish manufacturing to offset the 87-thousand metric tons fish deficit.
Ms. Mulenga says IAPRI is authorities’s vital accomplice in records provision for trend of the agriculture sector.
She has further known as for stakeholder engagement in rising market linkages and bettering prices for agro blueprint.