Fri, 03 Mar 2017 12:13:50 +0000 A LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL By Thembani M.Phiri Africa is on the scent of something big in the agricultural sector, and any Zambian that doesn’t smell this is either dead or living on another planet. We are at the brink of an agricultural revolution. One prompted by climatic considerations and the continued increase of scale in population has instigated a respectable rise in global demand for food and raw materials which has in turn invigorated diversification of production the world over with a bird eye focus on unutilized arable land in Africa of which Zambia has a considerably large portion. As the world population surges to 9 billion people by 2050 and demands on the global food supply soar, the greatest opportunity for profits in agriculture may be in Africa. Seventy percent of the world’s uncultivated arable land is on the continent, according to Sara […]
