Fri, 18 Nov 2016 13:40:44 +0000 GOVERNMENT has embarked on a soil mapping strategy across the country in a bid to enhance crop diversification which will focus on increasing crop variety to address the nutritional problems being faced in the country. Minister of Agriculture Dora Siliya said the research department had embarked on soil mapping to ascertain which crops would grow better in various parts of the country for farmers to have a good return on their investment. She was speaking in Lusaka yesterday when the National Food and Nutrition Commission and officers from the Ministry of Health paid a courtesy call on her. Ms Siliya said there was need for the country to venture into growing other value and nutritional crops away from the traditional maize crop in an effort to accord people the nutrition needs they require. Ms Siliya said it was saddening that many children in the country especially in rural areas […]
