Tue, 18 Apr 2017 10:36:31 +0000 By BENNIE MUNDANDO ZAMBIAN youths should take full advantage of the enabling environment for investment in the agriculture sector to explore the opportunities presented by the increasing demand for food worldwide, Edwin Lifwekelo has said. Mr. Lifwekelo said there was need for the majority of Zambians, especially the youths, to turn to agriculture because the sector provided immense potential for sound entrepreneurship at household and commercial level which would transform the lives of many people. He noted that Zambia had huge pieces of arable land which were underutilised saying with proper investment in technological advancement, Zambia was bound to be a food basket for countries within and outside the continent. He said youths were key to increasing production capacities in agriculture hence the need for them to change their attitude and embrace the sector as it was one for the conveyor belts to economic empowerment especially that […]
