Thu, 13 Apr 2017 08:28:20 +0000 By BUUMBA CHIMBULU GOVERNMENT should consider developing huge timber plantations to match the demand which will arise in the next 8-10 years and use the funds from timber sales to sustain debts in the long-term, Lubinda Habazoka has suggested. Dr Habazoka, an economist, said in an interview that such an initiative would help Government in servicing some of its debts in the long-term as timber was a viable business which would bring in foreign exchange. “In the next 10 years, I predict that the demand for timber is going to be very high and this is one of the ways of enhancing natural resources. “If people that are very good at forestry economics calculate what I am talking about, you are going to find that in the next 10 years Government will be sitting on abundant wealth if we did so,” he said. Dr Habazoka explained that […]
