Tue, 03 Jan 2017 07:05:59 +0000 BY GWENDOLYN MCHENGA PLANS are underway to revamp the Zambia Army farms in other military cantonments to end dependence on government for all its food needs, Army Commander Lieutenant General Paul Mihova has said. He said the military personnel had started to engage itself in economically viable and productive ventures such as crop and livestock production and fish farming in Kaoma, Kawambwa, Chipata and Serenje. Speaking during this year’s Zambia Army Officers’ Annual ball held at the army’s Headquarters at Arakan Barracks on Saturday evening, Gen. Mihova disclosed that the army was looking forward to achieving self-sustenance in food supplies by the year 2020, which could be enhanced through its training objectives as reflected in the army’s forecast of events of 2016. And Gen. Mihova said the army shall remain non-partisan at all times as they had always been andt would continue to be disciplined and hard working […]
