By OLIVER SAMBOKOZAMBIA is losing over K3.5 billion annually in fish imports due to government restrictive policy on production of hybrid tilapia, Sunday Chanda has said.Mr Chanda, the Kanchibiya Patriotic Front Member of Parliament, says it is not economically prudent for government to continue restricting local production of hybrid Tilapia at a time when the country had a deficit of fish of over 70,000 metric tons.He said currently, only fish farmers in three regions, Southern, Lusaka and Copperbelt provinces were allowed to grow hybrid Tilapia to the exclusion of other seven provinces.Mr Chanda said it was hypocritical for the country to continue importing hybrid Tilapia fish and other species while at the same time implementing restrictions on the local production. He said there was need to interrogate the policy as it was disadvantaging the Zambian aquaculture subsector which if well managed could make the country a net exporter of fish to the regional market and beyond. Mr […]
Zambia losing K3.5 billion in fish imports – Sunday Chanda
