AGRICULTURE Minister Given Lubinda says the country has a milk deficit of about 85 million litres of milk.
Mr. Lubinda has told Parliament in a ministerial statement this morning that the country produces approLubindaximately 215 million litres of milk out of the required 300 million litres per year.
He however, says that only 65 million litres of milk are processed for the formal consumer market, while the country imports 12 million litres in form of ultra heat treated long life milk,yoguts, cheeses and powdered milk in order to meet the milk deficit.
Mr Lubinda says government has taken several measures to safeguard and foster the growth of the daily industry.
And Mr Lubinda says Shoprite overlooked rules of origin under the SADC protocol when it imported milk from Poland through South Africa for sell in Zambia.
jameson chola
December 4, 2015 at 6:39 pm
Can’t remember how milk tests like ine kabwali chabe na shokers for breakfast.
Shaka Zulu
December 4, 2015 at 7:50 pm
Jameson correct English is……’what milk tastes like’ not ‘how milk tests like’. Tulebomfyako bwino icisungu bane.
Denkete
December 4, 2015 at 9:41 pm
walasa!!!
New Educated Zambia©❤√
December 5, 2015 at 2:47 pm
kulasa chani? there is no king of english. You and I are zambians unless am dealing with the british now pa tumfweko
jameson chola
December 5, 2015 at 9:38 am
Natotela mukwai shake shake zulu wesu..
New Educated Zambia©❤√
December 4, 2015 at 8:18 pm
This gives sad reading. Surely you people under pf we cannot even manage to be self sufficient in milk production? Things are bad. Milk is a vital diet esepcially for infants and children. This means that we are bound to have a malnourished nation. We thank given lubinda for his honesty because had it being kambwili in this case, he would have said the exact opposite.
jameson chola
December 5, 2015 at 9:46 am
Ninshi kachema is not supplying kabili so buy long life mu pick n pay or shoprite ni dibili no ques and stop this under fimo fimo game na pa ntemba pali bana john its there.enjoy your weekend..
Denkete
December 4, 2015 at 9:43 pm
Bushe ifishimu nishinga akasaka???
zambia,
December 4, 2015 at 11:28 pm
You insult Tongas day in and night out those are the people who have cattle were milk comes from.
zhyono
December 5, 2015 at 12:29 pm
which cattle ba musune attaaa?fyalilwala denkete
Onyx power @vampiros
December 5, 2015 at 8:40 am
All the tongas have turned to be politicians. The entire province is upnd
New Educated Zambia©❤√
December 5, 2015 at 9:56 am
The same us happening in central copper belt western North western and so on. Ukose kikikikiki 😂
Apathy
December 5, 2015 at 3:33 pm
Total and absolute rubbish. Blaming poor milk consumption on low incomes and refrigeration challenges. Sure, a Zambian struggles to buy milk, but see how fast he can come up with money when tbe word Chibuku is mentioned.
Look at the per capital consumption of alcohol then compare that to milk consumption. Alcohol, be it tujilijili, kachasu, chibuku and Lameson for the well to do has more priority than milk for children.
Even the British gave up Zambia without armed warfare.
Apathy
December 5, 2015 at 3:39 pm
Speaking to farmers. Milk price ex Parmalat and Creambell was K3,40 per litre last year. Same price this year. But :
Maize bran gone from 700 per ton to 1,200
Soya cake 165 per bag to 400 per bag
Imported vet drugs up 64%
Fertiliser for pastures from 180 to 375
Who in their right minds would want to dairy farm on Zambia ?
The same minister allowed export of maize bran and soya beans which has created a shortage locally and made traders base their prices on what they can get in dollars from exports. End result, dairy, poultry, eggs, and beef industries are heading for extinction.
Lubinda has no concept of agriculture, why does he comment on such matters ? Leave that to the “intellectuals”
Proof Read
December 6, 2015 at 6:16 am
Journalist or blogger in a basement? Wait but what about the editors? looks like primary school students wrote this story
pato
December 6, 2015 at 9:05 am
Imwe bagivo what deficit are u talking abt?twalikwata ba kachema mu chalo ninshi ingo’be shabo shalilwala….