Mon, 05 Jun 2017 13:15:10 +0000 Tea production to increase By MAILESI BANDA THERE are plans to increase the production of tea at the Kawambwa tea farm from 400 hectors to over 1000 before the rain season, Luapula province minister Nickson Chilangwa has said. The provincial minister said Zambia Forestry and Forest industries Corporation (ZAFFICO)was mobilising money to start irritating the tea in order for them to produce a winter crop. Speaking in an interview with the Daily Nation, he said ZAFFICO saw it vibrant and economically viable to introduce irrigation adding that that was meant to increase productivity and grow the tea industry in Zambia. Mr. Chilangwa said currently the crop produced at the company was only rain fed. “We have plans of extending the over 400 hectors of land at the Kawambwa Tea Company to over a thousand and introduce irrigation to increase production,” he said. The provincial minister who is also Kawambwa […]
