Mon, 03 Apr 2017 13:10:21 +0000 By MAKELI PHIRI The talk today is all about agriculture, the nation must grow crops (food) in order to adequately feed itself and the surplus for export to neighboring countries where food is especially in short supply and agricultural crops are the answer to the food shortage currently being experienced. However, what we should know is agriculture is not only growing crops, it also calls for the rearing of livestock. This country has in the majority small or traditional livestock farmers; it is this category of livestock farmers who should improve the rearing of their livestock. Cattle is a measure of wealth amongst the traditional farmers. Therefore, if they are to contribute positively to the food security of this nation and if the aim of keeping cattle especially beef animals is the production of meat, then production must be judged on the weight of meat produced from a given […]
