Sat, 23 Sep 2017 09:40:57 +0000 By Mailesi Banda EASTERN Province has become the first province to plan a provincial expo after the successful hosting of the Luapula expo in July. Provincial minister Makebi Zulu, said the province would host the expo to attract investment to the region next year. Mr Zulu said they had begun preparations for the expo by looking at the potential investment areas in all the ten districts in the province. “We will be having a provincial expo for the Eastern Province next year and we are looking at the potential for investment in all the ten districts. Everyone is going into the province for gold now but the province has vast economic potential that needs to be exposed for investment,” Mr Zulu said. He also said the province had vast potential in the agriculture sector, adding that while they produced 500 metric tonnes of maize in the 2015/2016 farming season […]
