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Zambia’s Timber Industry To Grow – Chibamba
Zambia’s Timber Industry is poised for growth, with the looming shortage in South Africa.
Economist Chibamba Kanyama says the projected timber shortfall in South Africa provides an opportunity for other countries to meet the shortfall.
Mr. Kanyama says annual demand for timber is projected to grow at about 4.5-percent with a projected supply deficit of 15 million tones in South Africa.
He says South Africa has not instituted tariff protection on imports thereby creating opportunities for exporters to fill the gap in timber deficit.
Mr. Kanyama said in a statement to Business News in Lusaka on Friday that Zambia needs to beef up its timber industry to take advantage of the South African market.
He has called on government to restructure the production and processing of timber.
He has further called on Government to increase acreage of land for cultivation of timber.
ZNBC
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bazooka
October 22, 2011 at 3:34 am
For once this greedy economist has spoken sense,,bt I hear we too av shortage of timber coz MMD neva uzd to plnt on time,mind u thoz timber for it to grow takes btn 15 to 20years…
GUEVARA
October 22, 2011 at 9:44 am
please help me here i havent travelled zambia that much. do we realy have forests that can suport such ventures, zambia as a whole is also under construction, lest we end up with a desert for a country.
Florence Wachimonahu Dehi
October 22, 2011 at 10:21 am
No man, this is the kind you grow like the ones in Chichele Plantation between Ndola and Kitwe. So we just need to plant more per say.
Botha
October 22, 2011 at 3:54 pm
I agree with Chibamba Kanyama, currently i have about 10,000 saplings of pine for sale but no marKet
M
October 23, 2011 at 3:50 pm
Botha whats your email?
iwe
October 22, 2011 at 7:08 pm
This guy is not an economist. Can he please stop masquerading as one.
Anani Koffi
October 26, 2011 at 1:40 pm
Chikala Chibamba thinks by talking too much he can become economist
The elite
October 23, 2011 at 8:28 am
Do we have that much timber to boast about in this country, which can be exported……perhaps this allegedy economist has forgotten dat for the past 20yrs the govt had not engaged into timber production. The few plantations we have on the copperbelt consist of most diseased timber trees which are not fit for export……even if we were to start planting trees now, is this so called economist sure that we will take advantage of the shortfall in RSA 20yrs from today.. If anything as a nation we shud b talking abt palnting more timber in order to reduce the price burden we ve..!
Bamwine
October 24, 2011 at 11:11 am
Ba Chibamba nafuti babwela na tu IKONOMIKISI twabufi. imwe pamo naifwe tiyen tukeke abacita ECONOMICS balelanda.
Nangu namukwatako utupiya sometimes kwikalako zii and listen to others you will lose nothing.
Junior mafia
October 27, 2011 at 10:18 am
CHIBAMBA KANYAMA TE ECONOMIST NI MOTIVATION SPEAKER.IF YU’R LOOKING FOR AN ECONOMIST PLS LISTEN TO THE LIKES OF BOB SICHINGA AND N’GANDU MAGANDE YU WILL EVEN PICK SENSE FROM THEIR TALKING.
TENTMAN
November 26, 2011 at 11:04 am
When money gets to your head you think all is sensible that comes out of your mouth.This is what has happened to this man.When the RSA has a short fall of timber lets sell them not timber but what they want it for.