By ROGERS KALEROGOVERNMENT should assist organisations dealing in poultry to create synergies with well established Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) entrepreneurs interested in buying village chickens from Zambia,” A Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) has said.Alejo Community Support Project Coordinator Alex Mutale said the poultry sector has a potential to contribute significantly to Zambia’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) if the sector was fully harnessed hence government should assist village chicken farmers penetrate the DRC which has a huge market for birds.Mr. Mutale, whose organisation was based on the Copperbelt, said his organisation had in the last five years distributed over half a million village chickens to cooperatives in nine provinces.He said Alejo Community Support Project was organising a stakeholders’ engagement meeting on November 5, 2021 with participants from the Ministry of Agriculture, academia and selected group beneficiaries and will be officiated by the Minister of Commerce, Trade and Industry.“We want the Government to come and see how […]
POULTRY FARMERS EYE DRC.
