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Vertical farming known as Urban farming is a good method that zambian vegetable farmers can use to increase the production level of vegetables.
<a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&amp;source=web&amp;rct=j&amp;url=https://stories.pinduoduo-global.com/agritech-hub/how-does-vertical-farming-work&amp;ved=2ahUKEwim8LeC1OnxAhUMmhQKHYo7AYUQFjABegQIAxAF&amp;usg=AOvVaw2fYvXUg9V56H-9cM3ICFN7">Vertical farming</a> is a specific method developed to produce fruits and vegetables in vertically inclined surfaces, while most farming methods focus on producing foods at a ground level. This farming method is well-established in countries like Japan.
The most vegetable farmers in zambia are using the traditional farming method known as gardering farming in cultivating popular vegetables like rape, chinese cabbage, carrots and cabbage. This is where farmers employ very little infrastructural capital that is not more than a few tools like spade, hoe, basket and watering can in cultivating the process of vegetables, and these methods are the norm.
<a href="https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/ZMB/zambia/population-growth-rate">Zambia</a> has high population growth where its current population in 2021 is 18,920,651, a 2.92% increase from 18,383,955 population in 2020. Thus, it is important to plan innovating before the problem arises since this farming method can be done in small , enclosed spaces and less land.
Vertical farming uses the other good structure called repurposed warehouses which can help the production of vegetables to become cost-effective due to the reduction of labor requirements. It uses suitable structures like skyscraper structures which grow produce indoors without soil in stacked racks that have been touted.
Vertical farming also uses shipping container structure, which are some created containers suited for growing greens by using a fraction of the natural resources that would usually be required like the leafy green machine which is easy to use without even experience. This method does not need pesticides or herbicides, it can provide a stable vegetable source unaffected by seasonal patterns and still produce more and good quality vegetables.
Even if Zambia has got abundant arable land that is un utilised, the vertical farming is more beneficial to the farmers. Because even if the costs of vertical farming are higher than those for traditional farming, through vertical farming methods, a farmer can get a high return on their investment compared to traditional farming. Meaning that the traditional farming might seem to be cheaper by capital spent but vertical farming is cheaper by the cost per unit of produce grown.
Zambia can draw lessons from
● <a href="https://newint.org/features/2011/11/01/kibera-urban-farming-in-africa">Kenya</a> in Nairobi city also used this method to secure food during the riot in 2007 and 2008 according to New internationalist
● <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/av/business-47834804">Uganda</a> also has adopted this technique as its population in Kampala's capital is now over 1.5 million people and land is scarce. Its populations are exploding in urban areas using a technique called "vertical farming"too.
● In <a href="http://verticalfarmingplanet.com/countries-using-vertical-farming/">Singapore</a>, about 800kg of various vegetables are produced daily including chinese cabbage through the use of this method.
The implementation of vertical farming has some challenges especially in Africa for example unreliable sources of energy and water. Even the cost of starting up is higher.
By establishing partnerships of government, universities, the private sectors, research institutions and civil societies, Zambia can overcome those obstacles.

Vertical farming, a good method to increase the vegetables production and quality in Zambian urban agriculture.

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<a href="http://documents1.worldbank.org/curated/en/806361468178169324/pdf/729940WP0TOURI0C0disclosed010010120.pdf">Zambia</a> is a country that is located in the SADC region (Southern African Development Community). It has the natural resources and other tourism assets needed to attract a significantly larger number of tourists. The country is home to the iconic Victoria Falls and also has some world-class national parks and other wildlife-related attractions, including 19 National Parks and 34 Game Management Areas covering over 22.4 million hectares. These attractions are well received by tourists.
Zambia also has numerous natural cultural and heritage assets away from these core areas for example:
<ul>
 <li>Lakes in northern Zambia for beach and water activities</li>
 <li>Wetlands in northern Zambia for birdlife and</li>
 <li>Various cultural ceremonies across the country.</li>
</ul>
Tourism contributes to the economy in terms of foreign exchange earnings balance of payments and generates tax revenues for the treasury.
COVID-19 is a real threat to Zambia’s tourism sector and there is a high risk that many firms will shut down and disappear.
Zambia’s travel and tourism industry, which has shown signs of healthy growth in recent years, was impacted significantly by the COVID-19 pandemic.
According to a <a href="https://knoema.com/atlas/Zambia/topics/Tourism/Travel-and-Tourism-Total-Contribution-to-GDP/Contribution-of-travel-and-tourism-to-GDP-percent-of-GDP#:~:text=Zambia%20-%20Contribution%20of%20travel%20and,as%20a%20share%20of%20GDP&amp;text=In%202019%2C%20contribution%20of%20travel,)%20for%20Zambia%20was%207.3%20%25.">2020 report</a> by the International Growth Centre (IGC) in 2019, the contribution of travel and tourism to GDP (% of GDP) for Zambia was 7.3 % (USD 1,701 million), 7.2% of total employment (469 thousand jobs) and International visitors spent USD 849 million, representing 10% of Zambia’s total exports.
The contribution of travel and tourism to Zambia's GDP (% of GDP) tended to increase through the 2000 - 2019 period but ended at 7.3 % in 2019. This was prior to the advent of COVID-19.
During the onset of the pandemic Covid-19 in March-2020, Zambia did not close its borders, but took some measures which have been taken to avoid crowds and banning unnecessary travelling around the world.
Covid-19 caused the rapid <a href="https://www.theigc.org/blog/tourism-and-covid-19-in-zambia/">decline of visitors</a> in Zambia, where in the first three months of 2020;
<ul>
 <li>The tourism dropped over 14000 international visitors and</li>
 <li>165 tourism businesses in Livingstone faced bankruptcy.</li>
</ul>
The travel agency like Safari insurance brokerage and car rental services as the company which has been affected also has developed the online platform to effectively distribute travel products during this covid-19 period.
Tourism businesses in Zambia need to have more different <a href="https://zambialii.org/node/7910">licenses</a> which is not easy to get. Some of those licenses are needed from both the local council and a central government agency for just the same activity. But if they could be minimized, this could develop tourism as it is one of heavy regulations in Zambia's tourism sector, which even led Zambia &nbsp;to be ranked as 113th out of 140 countries in <a href="https://reports.weforum.org/travel-and-tourism-competitiveness-report-2019/rankings/">TTCI</a> (Travel and Tourism Competitiveness Index) in 2019.
According to the <a href="https://allafrica.com/stories/202105060394.html">Times of Zambia</a> United Kingdom (UK) government has brought the latest support of a noble share of 15 million pounds which is about 466.6 million of Kwacha to support "Kavango–Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area"(KAZA) landscape which improved the tourism industry performance in the 10 provinces of the country.
<a href="https://travelbans.org/africa/zambia/">Zambia</a> &nbsp;is collaborating with its neighboring countries, to ensure that &nbsp;borders are open, but keep the restrictions of all visitors to have proof that they tested negative for covid-19 in the 72 hours before their arrival. This will help Zambia to continue its target of becoming a leading tourist destination in the southern Africa region and creating many jobs that will help in contributing to Zambia's economic growth and poverty reduction.
Even though covid-19 turned down the tourism sector in Zambia, &nbsp;there are three main ways that Zambia should apply to <a href="http://documents1.worldbank.org/curated/en/806361468178169324/pdf/729940WP0TOURI0C0disclosed010010120.pdf">increase</a> the revenue from tourists to turn it up;
<ul>
 <li>Increase the number of tourists</li>
 <li>Increase the length of time tourists stay in the country</li>
 <li>Increase the amount of money tourists spend during their stay.</li>
</ul>
By achieving some or all of the following results, Zambia’s tourism industry could come closer to reaching its potential, through increased investment (both domestic and foreign), visitor numbers and expenditure. This could provide more jobs and contribute to increased prosperity.

Tourism in Zambia has been hardly hit by Covid-19.

Today, Zambian honey is highly marketable across the world, where it exports 55% of its honey to the United Kingdom and 35% to Germany, Arab countries, the USA and SADC region, and Programme Against Malnutrition (PAM), with more than $800,000 annually from honey exportation.
According to the Zambia honey sector strategy, in 2015 Zambia had an estimated 20000 beekeepers throughout the country producing an average of 600 metric tons of marketed honey yearly. Beekeeping provides up to 25% of the Annual income for
hundreds of thousands of Zambians.
Zambian honey has got even local buyers for example Greenbelt enterprises located in
Kasama, Community Markets for Conservation (COMACO) located in Chinsali in Northern Province of Zambia offers a huge market
for Zambian honey to local people.
Minding the fact that Zambia and many other African countries in general still face
several challenges based on; knowledge transfer, access to capital, quality control,
logistics and so many others, Today, the production level of honey and other related
products, seems to be generally low which offers a huge opportunity on the other hand for both local and international investors.
This goes with the fact that the price of honey in most of African countries is high for one kilogram costing $6-8, almost 6 to 8 times the price of petrol and the fact that honey’s market is very high worldwide.
Many <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/284216250_An_Economic_Analysis_of_Apiculture_Practices_in_Zambia">studies</a> have shown that apiculture plays an important role in the economic growth of Zambia, since the majority of Zambians do beekeeping and honey exportation.
The government of Zambia encourages beekeepers to unite and work together &nbsp;rather than working individually in order to help themselves and pull thousands of people out of poverty. The government has also adopted a beekeeping <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/resrep02077.7?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents">industry policy</a> where different institutions that produce and export Zambian honey will be supported.
Different projects aimed at helping beekeepers are supported by government or other International Organizations such as The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) that recently trained &nbsp;almost &nbsp;3000 honey farmers about technics of harvest and packaging bee products for export in order for farmers to make use of new export opportunities such as “New Trade Initiatives” of the european union, Us-backed African growth.
Beekeeping is a huge industry that offers a lot of job opportunities to different people
in different parts of the world due to the use and benefits of bee products such as
honey consumed as food, used in medicine and many other uses, and beeswax used as raw materials in cosmetics-skin care and hair products. Beeswax can also be used to make candles, floor polish, furniture polish and shoe polish. It can also be used to make sculptures and for baiting beehives.
Following the Agricultural Revolution, history reveals that about 10,000 years ago, people collected honey from wild bees (honey hunting) hence using and consuming bee products. Traditionally, people did beekeeping around 4000 years ago, and later on,
beekeeping became one of human activities especially in Africa and Asia, and has
become one of the most important business industries in the entire world according to Yuval Noah Harari, the author of a book named “Sapiens, A Brief History of Humankind”.

Zambia: Another Growing opportunity in Apiculture.

Nchanga copper mine in Chingola, Zambia(ImgSrc:Zambia-The Guardian)
<a href="https://investingnews.com/daily/resource-investing/base-metals-investing/copper-investing/copper-in-africa-south-africa-drc-zambia/">Zambia</a> is Africa's second largest copper producer after &nbsp;Democratic Republic of Congo. In 2019, Zambia was the seventh largest copper producer in the world by producing 790000MT of the red mine that same year.
In Zambia, copper was discovered in the late 19th century then in the 1950s the Zambian copper belt dominated global production of the metal.
Zambia’s copper mines are concentrated in the copper belt province which have got different main cities like Kitwe, Ndola, Mufulira, Luanshya, Chingola and Chililabombwe.
Mining is a major economic sector in the country contributing highly to Zambian government revenues through mainly mining royalties and VAT.
In <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-zambia-mining-idUSKBN23P1NB">first months</a> of 2020 meaning January to April, mining companies in Zambia &nbsp;like First quantum Minerals (FM.TO); Glencore(GLEN.L), Barrick Gold Corp(ABX.TO) and Vedanta resources VDAN.NS &nbsp;those copper producers had suffered a 20% drop in revenue due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
<a href="http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/africa/2021-02/23/c_139761985.htm">Minister</a> of Mines and Minerals in Zambia Mr Richard Musukwa said that there was still the increase in production to increased output by large mining firms even during that particular period of Covid-19 pandemic.
Zambia has managed to <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-zambia-copper-idUSKBN2AN0NL">produce</a>
<ul>
 <li>799,329 tonnes of copper recorded in 2017.</li>
 <li>Around 861,946 metric tons of copper in <a href="https://www.zccm-ih.com.zm/2019/01/31/zambias-copper-production-rises-to-861946-tonnes-in-2018/#:~:text=Zambia%20has%20recorded%20a%20marginal,FQM)%20operations%20in%20Kalumbila%20District.">2018</a></li>
 <li>776,430 tons which had been produced in 2019</li>
 <li>882,061 tons of copper in 2020 which is almost up 13.6% &nbsp;of 2019</li>
</ul>
In 2021, the copper mining production in Zambia is likely to increase more than 15% from 882,061 tons of copper produced in 2020.
In the <a href="https://tradingeconomics.com/zambia/gdp-from-mining">first quarter</a> of this year 2021 the mining GDP decreased to
<ul>
 <li>3518 Zambian Kwacha million from</li>
 <li>3904 ZMk million in the fourth quarter of 2020.</li>
</ul>
However the mining sector during this pandemic period has declined initially due to the falling global demand for copper which led to the price fall. Since mid-March, the <a href="https://www.mining.com/copper-price-in-biggest-drop-since-height-of-pandemic/">copper price</a> crashed to below $2.00 a pound.
In <a href="https://knoema.com/infographics/prujshc/copper-price-forecast-2021-2022-and-long-term-to-2035">May 2021</a> Copper prices reached an all-time high of $10,512 per metric ton. It also marked a 130% growth since March 22, 2020. It was because of the high demand from China as one of top copper consumers. The demand for copper is expected to rise further amid rising concerns about low Copper inventories.
<a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-zambia-copper-idUSKBN2AN0NL">Mines and Minerals</a> Minister Richard Musukwa said that Zambia aims to produce more than 90000 tons of copper in this year 2021 and long-term target is to exceed 1million tones in annual production.
The president of Zambia Edgar Lungu revealed a plan for 2020-2023 economic recovery.
He said that even if &nbsp;the price of copper has been hit hard by the Covid-19 and the country's economy hugely depends on it , Zambia set out targets for the economic recovery.
<a href="https://www.aa.com.tr/en/africa/zambia-assures-mining-investors-of-better-policies/2224828">Zambia’s president</a> addressed that his country will develop a more simplified tax administration system to facilitate investors by;
<ul>
 <li>Implementing policy and regulation that facilitate the investors who are willing to do their investment in the mining sector.</li>
 <li>Having a good relationship with the existing investors like Canada’s first Quantum minerals which is one of the biggest mining operation companies in Zambia.</li>
</ul>
<a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-19/the-world-will-need-10-million-tons-more-copper-to-meet-demand">The market</a> for copper is good since the value of copper will most likely increase as it continues to grow in demand over time. The copper industry needs to spend upwards of $100 billion to close an annual supply deficit of 4.7 million metric tons by 2030 according to estimates from CRU group(Commodities Research Unit).

Copper mining in Zambia versus price fall as Covid-19 pandemic is the major cause.

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Café de Gisagara is a coffee brand from Rwanda's Gisagara district, known for its high-quality beans, sustainable farming practices, and rich flavor profile. It supports local farmers and exports premium coffee internationally.

CAFE DE GISAGARA

As a company, since we started operations in 1984, we always believed in taking the communities we operate in and the society at large along on our growth journey.

This belief saw the birth of the STRENGTHENING RWANDA agenda that is now intrinsically tied to everything the we stand for.

CIMERWA

Sake Farm Ltd is an agricultural company focused on producing high-quality crops or livestock. They use sustainable farming practices to support local farmers and contribute to the economy.

SAKE FARM LTD

Big Coffee Ltd is committed to promoting sustainable farming, supporting local communities, and exporting premium coffee to international markets. The company aims to grow the coffee industry while offering a product known for its excellent taste and rich flavor

BIG COFFEE LTD

Agricultural Trading Company is a business that deals with the buying and selling of agricultural products, such as crops, livestock, and farming equipment. They connect farmers with markets, offering quality products and services to support agricultural growth and trade.

COOTHEGAB has benefited greatly from Mushubi Tea Company as a partner, including good agricultural practices, fertilizer supply, buying leaf at a fair price, collection and timely delivery of high-quality green leaf, and several other projects.

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