Fri, 21 Jul 2017 10:16:07 +0000 By AARON CHIYANZO ZAMBIA is lagging on a deficit of over 100 million litres of milk annually which would-be dairy farmers can take advantage of and contribute immensely to the Treasury in the form of taxes, says Dairy Association of Zambia (DAZ) policy officer Kapoche Mwale. Mr Mwale said that only about 65 million litres of milk was supplied to the formal industry annually when Zambia had the capacity to produce 182 million litres. He however explained that a larger part of the milk which was produced across the country was being lost into the informal sector with all the requisite health hazards. Mr Mwale said that in as much as the milk in the informal sector was consumed in households, most of it went to waste. He said that growth in the local dairy sector had been slow, but significant over the past 10 years with the […]
