NEWSLETTER EDITIEDITION 16 || THIRD QUARTER || 2012018

SOLAR ENERGY IMPROVES LIVELIHOODS

PLUS ! Warehouse operator brokers partnerships to increase access to credit

MUSIKA | 2018 Third Quarter Newsletter Musika is a Zambian non-profit company Message from that stimulates and supports private sector investment in the smallholder the Managing Director market.

VISION he 2018/19 farming season is almost before us and we are hopeful Our vision is a dynamic Zambian that farmers, especially smallholder farmers, are ready and have put agricultural market that works for all Tup necessary measures to ensure that they have a productive farming stakeholders and in particular the rural experience. poor. With climate experts indicating that Southern Africa will likely experience an El MISSION Nino phase, which will result in erratic rainfall during the 2018/19 farming season, To provide world class business it is cardinal our farmers consider to diversify and adopt technologies, practices development services to Zambia’s and tools that can help them to cope with eventualities that may result from this agricultural markets to deepen and climatic shock and help build their resilience. broaden the impact of economic growth to all levels of rural society. This edition of our newsletter highlights experiences of how some farming households, through crop diversification, are spreading production and income STRATEGIC GOAL risk over a wider range of crops, thus reducing livelihood vulnerability to Musika aims to “reduce rural poverty weather or market shocks. through integrating farming households in well-functioning agricultural markets”. Through interventions implemented with over 80 private sector partners, Musika Musika is owned and managed by has contributed, to a larger extent, towards the development of a conducive Zambians, developing home-grown environment for farmer behaviour change towards a more diverse range of solutions for the Zambian market. production options.

This is supported simultaneously by a retail industry that provides relevant inputs, technologies and associated information and a commodities industry that offers assured markets, extension and other market services around the production of multiple crops including the more drought tolerant such as cassava.

NEWSLETTER EDITIEDITION 16 || THIRD QUARTER || 2012018 The last quarter was particularly exciting for us here at Musika because we supported efforts aimed at building a firm foundation for the development of Zambia’s horticultural wholesale markets by jointly organising an investors meeting with IAPPRI and the USAID Southern African Trade and Investment Hub. SOLAR We believe investments in Zambia’s fresh fruit and vegetable markets will accord ENERGY us the opportunity to contribute towards government efforts in diversifying the IMPROVES LIVELIHOODS economy.

PLUS ! Warehouse operator brokers partnerships to increase access to credit With best wishes, Reuben Banda

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2 MUSIKA | 2018 Second Quarter Newsletter Contents

Farmers help protect Kalomo bulking centre spurs 4 Copperbelt forests by raising women participation in goat bees farming 5

Chibombo woman Smallholders and Smallholder farmers in secures rights to land in 7 agribusinesses to benefit 8 Luapula benefit from 6 her own name from Musika & DEC Zambian Breweries partnership cassava project

2. Message from the 11. Smallholders em- 13. Zambia – A new gateway 15. Agriculture Managing Director brace new mango varie- for fresh produce trade into minister hails ties in Luapula district Africa Zambian breweries 10. Solar energy im- cassava project proves livelihoods of 12. Warehouse operator 14. Better World Zambia smallholder farmers brokers partnerships to makes progress in increase access to credit reclaiming disused mining for smallholders dump site Farmers help protect Copperbelt forests by raising bees By Charles Musonda, Manager - Environment Markets

Agroforestry demo at Rainlands nursery (Photo Credit: WeForest)

he cutting down of trees for smallholder engagement initiatives charcoal and firewood, and use undertaken by Rainlands. This has Tof fire to clear land for crop resulted in the integration of 750 production has devastated large tracks smallholder farmers in Luanshya, of forests in Zambia. Mpongwe, Chingola , Kitwe and Lusaka into market structures offered by It is estimated that Zambia lost an Rainlands and benefit from not just average 276,021 hectares of forests per the presence of an environmentally year between 2000 and 2014 due to friendly market, but also the delivery deforestation. of other associated market services such as extension, training, access to To help control this trend, Rainlands agroforestry and fruit seedling inputs Timber Limited, a local firm operating and access to honey services. Farmers display plants received under a Rainland on the Copperbelt Province is teaching outgrower scheme (Photo credit: WeForest) farmers to raise bees for honey Musika supported Rainlands’ efforts by production as an alternative source of providing a motor vehicle for extension livelihood, and assisting them to replant provision and a wood-chipper for trees in a bid to restore the natural making wood chips for the stoves. forests. The support from Musika has also enabled Rainlands to venture into John Mwelwa is one such farmer who the production of wooden beehives has installed 10 beehives near his home thereby increasing the profitability of and has planted half a hectare of pine its sawmill. trees. “I ventured into bee keeping for the very first time in 2018 and I am looking forward to selling the honey to Rainlands Timber and use part of the income to buy enough food to feed my family,” explained Mwelwa..

Apart from the bee hives, Rainlands also supplies farmers with cleaner, energy efficient wood chip stoves which consume less wood compared to the traditional brazier that uses large amounts of charcoal. Musika provided financial and technical support to the Agroforestry demo at Rainlands nursery Farmers installing a bee-hive (Photo credit: WeForest) (Photo credit: WeForest)

4 MUSIKA | 2018 Third Quarter Newsletter case of us women,” Ndunda livestock buyers and small- narrated . holder suppliers, and to also Kalomo serve as a service centre for But through a bulking centre livestock input suppliers and bulking centre for small livestock in Kalo- veterinary service providers. mo established in 2015 by Between July and September Kalomo Dairy Development this year, Ndunda sold over spurs women Centre (KDDC) with the 68 goats and 75 chickens support of Musika, small- through the bulking centre. participation in holder farmers including The 48-year-old mother of women can now sell their 10 used the income to pay goat farming goats and profit from their school fees for her children. hard work in a safe and According to Ndunda, the By Enock Siankwilimba, Regional Manager - Southern secure environment. bulking centre brings relief to farmers that use it as rest- Musika provided both tech- ing place for their animals hen Family nical and financial support and themselves as they trav- Ndunda of to KDDC in developing the el longer distance to Lusaka WLwangunduma Small Animal Holding and and the Copperbelt. village, located about 120 Marketing Centre aimed at In a quarter, over 6,000 kilometres on the outskirts promoting open and trans- goats pass through the of Kalomo town, in Southern parent transactions between KDDC centre. Province was faced with financial problems in 2014, her husband would not let her travel to Kalomo to sell some of their goats due to the security risks involved along the journey. Main Image: Goats being loaded into a truck destined for Lusaka and the Copperbelt “Trading then was conducted by the roadside under trees, Insert Image: Staff at KDDC exposing us farmers who load the goats into a truck destined for Lusaka and the had travelled long distances Copperbelt to sell our goats to serious risks such as thefts, hash weather conditions at night, and sexual harassment in the

MUSIKA | 2018 Third Quarter Newsletter 5 Chibombo woman secures rights to land in her own name

By James Luhana, Manager - Inclusive Business and Tidzitwa Zulu Ilubala, Gender and Rural Markets Manager.

Constance Kangende shows off the parcel certificate for her land

onstance Kangende is a single n 2014, Musika provided Medeem with In the rural areas, most land is under parent living in Mwachisompola both logistical and technical assistance a traditional or “customary” tenure Cvillage, in Chibombo district, 83 in scaling up its operations to the system where women’s direct access to km east of the Zambian capital Lusaka. ‘’lower end’ of the market in chiefdoms land through purchase or inheritance is located in Southern, Central and Lusaka often limited. To meet the needs of her two children, Provinces. the 30-year old depended on farming There are usually customary provisions on the small piece of land she had To date, Medeem has issued over 465 for indirect access to land in terms of inherited from her parents. ParcelCerts in Chief Liteta’s Chiefdom, use rights acquired through kinship of which 111 are women. Chief Liteta relationships and their status as wives, But one day, she was shocked to find has been instrumental in facilitating mothers, sisters, or daughters. out that a church organisation had Medeem’s operations and ensuring taken part of the land for a project that his subjects such as Kangende own These use rights, however, may not without her knowledge. land that is properly documented. grant enough security for women and other dependents when traditional Efforts to retrain the church from family structures dissolve. encroaching on the land proved difficult even after reporting the case to the Through labour mobility, divorce, traditional council. “ To date, Medeem separation, or death, an increasing number of women are becoming “I was losing the battle because I had has issued over 465 the heads of households. They are no document whatsoever to show that ParcelCerts in Chief thus making many of the day-to- this piece of land belonged to me,’’ day decisions affecting shelter, food Kangende said, adding that the dispute Liteta’s Chiefdom, production, and household economics. forced her to halt plans to double the of which 111 are Yet only a small proportion of these area of land cultivated to 3 hectares. women hold secure land rights. women...” She was able to regain use of the Similarly, there are instances where land after she got a land certificate, access to land stems from the female otherwise known as a ParcelCert, with Kangende’s plight is a common one line, and in this case male partners the help of Medeem Zambia Limited, a in Zambia, although she was more and children may be disadvantaged as company that works to make the land fortunate than most other women. societies change. rights documentation process more Many never regain access or rights to affordable and accessible by everyone, matrimonial land lost after divorce or including women and smallholder the death of a spouse. farmers occupying customary land.

6 MUSIKA | 2018 Third Quarter Newsletter “ Musika will provide technical expertise in the area of smallholder market development and utilise its vast network of agribusinesses...”

DEC Commissioner, Alita Mbahwe, hands over a fully signed copy of the MOU to Musika Managing Director, Reuben Banda, at the end of “Musika will provide technical expertise the signing ceremony in the area of smallholder market development and utilise its vast network of agribusinesses as a platform for information sharing and training in sound business and farming practices,” he said.

The two organisations will complement each other’s efforts in carrying out joint Smallholders and community awareness and sensitisation programmes to assist farmers and agribusinesses to benefit agribusinesses to comply with national laws that prevent and control illegal cultivation of narcotic drugs and from Musika & DEC engaging in money laundering activities, respectively, Mr. Banda added. partnership Under the MoU, the DEC’s role as a law enforcement agency will provide By Pamela Hamasaka – Head Corporate Affairs technical expertise and information within its mandate, and where commercially appropriate, make investments in developing the lower end of the agricultural market to enhance usika and Drug Enforcement “Small scale farmers are among our key alternative cash crops cultivation. Commission (DEC) focus groups as they are prone to the Msigned a Memorandum of temptation of cultivating illicit plants Understanding (MOU) to strengthen such as cannabis instead of other cash their collaborative efforts in building crops. The high prevalence of illicit crop capacity of smallholders and cultivation is evidenced by the seizure agribusinesses to comply to laws of a total of 54.1 tons of fresh cannabis governing the illegal cultivation of from farmers in 2017,” she pointed out. narcotic and psychotropic substances, and money laundering activities. Musika Managing Director, Reuben Banda, explained that the partnership Speaking at the signing ceremony was an effort towards improving the held on 31st July, 2018, DEC functionality of the agricultural supply Commissioner, Alita Mbahwe, stated chain by supporting the delivery of that the partnership will create multiple better services by micro, small and opportunities for the Commission to medium sized ‘intermediaries’ to large increase its reach into the smallholder agribusiness partners, and delivery market, and provide a platform for of a range of market services and joint awareness and sensitisation information to smallholders to help Musika managing director, Mr Reuben Banda, programmes. improve and diversify their production and DEC Commissioner Alita Mbhawe signed systems. off a Memorandum of Understanding.

MUSIKAMUSIKA | 2018 | 2018 Second Third Quarter Newsletter 7 Delphister Kanfwa prepares her crop for sale to Zambian Breweries

Smallholder farmers in Luapula benefit from Zambian Breweries cassava project By Gift Chanda, Communications Officer

In the midday heat of September, a dozen women of Koselela farming Group in Mansa, Northern Zambia, sit peeling a heap of cassava roots as men gather stems from the field.

As time goes by, the pile of cassava food costs, all eating into her profits. lower input costs, gross margins for peels grows slowly at their feet. cassava farmers can be as high as It’s easy to work out that cassava “It was a real struggle! We would seven times those of maize. is a staple crop here and every spend two weeks waiting to sell household probably has a field or the cassava. Each day spent “This is a big boost to our livelihoods two. waiting to sell the cassava there because cassava farming is now meant one more day of paying for profitable,” Delphister said, having Delphister Kanfwa, 49, is one of the accommodation and food. If you did sold 5 tonnes of cassava to Zambian farmers peeling the cassava that will not have transport money, it meant Breweries last year to earn slightly later be washed and dried before it the cassava going to waste,” she over K7, 000. is delivered to Fimpulu depot – one narrated. of Zambian Breweries’ cassava She used the money to pay for her aggregation points in Mansa. Then, Delphister suddenly found children’s school fees and to buy iron herself in the vanguard of a quiet roofing sheets for her house. In previous years, Delphister, who cassava market revolution; in 2017, has been growing cassava for more Zambian Breweries launched its Another cassava farmer in Mansa than 25 years, harvested a few cassava project and has since District, Trudy Musanshiko, 50, used bags that she struggled to sell, and bought over 10,000 tonnes of dried the income from cassava to acquire like most of the farmers in Luapula cassava chips from over 6,000 her own 10 hectare piece of land. Province, Delphister had a major small-scale farmers in Luapula problem: “There was no proper Province, with a total farm gate value Previously, Trudy used to rent a half market for the crop. We would grow of over US $1.5 million. hectare piece of land to grow her the cassava for home consumption. cassava, but access to a transparent If we are lucky to have a market, it The dried cassava chips are a key and reliable market has given her the was on a barter system where we ingredient in the manufacture of confidence to invest. exchanged cassava for fish,” she Zambian Breweries’ affordable Eagle explained. Lager beer. “Back then it was difficult to sell more than 10 bags of cassava but If she wanted to raise cash from the The price Zambian Breweries pays now one is able to sell up to 500 sale, she had to put the bags on a for cassava of K1.40 per kg is higher bags. It is easy to make money bus to markets on the Copperbelt, than the local price farmers receive off cassava and that is why I am which meant transport, lodging and for maize and, with significantly positioning myself for this market

8 MUSIKA | 2018 Third Quarter Newsletter Zambian Breweries has created for skill base with our agronomic team. The traditional leader was also us,” Trudy added. The aim is to train farmer not to happy that the attitude of growing grow more hectares of cassava but cassava for consumption had To assist Zambian Breweries to to grow better cassava. This way the changed due to the company’s establish a firm presence in Luapula, farmer will not have more work but initiative of buying cassava, and he Musika has provided the company have the skill to work better and get said he can see a tangible impact at and its intermediaries with technical higher returns,” explained Zambian farmer level. assistance, logistical support for Breweries Agricultural Manager, transporting cassava from the Chris Nicolle. “I am happy that grass thatching rural areas and for the provision of houses in my chiefdom is slowly of outreach and extension support “By having a ledger based disappearing as farmers are now to farmers, and some funding for technology at the core of our able to build good houses with iron improved variety trials. platform we will be able to start roofing sheets. The livelihood of my to build up financial solutions that people is gradually changing,” he In 2018, it added to this support with the farmers can start to be part of, said. financial assistance to pilot a cloud- as they now will have a record of based digital commodity origination, their transactions and thus become Patrick Chama is one such farmer traceability and payment solution, bankable,” he added. whose life has been transformed and is also working on an additional tremendously by supplying cassava level of support to the development With Musika support, Zambian to Zambian Breweries. of farmer-based trials of improved Breweries and its intermediaries varieties of cassava, driven by a have developed buying points The 66-year-old farmer has Zambian Breweries agronomist in Chembe, Mansa, Kawambwa, managed to purchase building and Zambian Agricultural Research Nchelenge, and Samfya district. materials to complete his house Institute. using the income from the cassava This has elated the government and sales from his 15 hectare plot of “After the successful piloting of traditional leaders in the area such cassava, which he planted to sell a cloudbased digital commodity as Chief Mabumba who believe the to Zambian Breweries. Now that origination, traceability and payment readily available market of cassava he has confidence in the market, solution this year, we plan to have facilitated by Zambian Breweries Patrick has invested in a new variety this running by next year. The will help improve living condition cassava that matures in less than a aspect of using Blockchain and SMS of many small-scale farmers in year, twice as fast as the traditional technology will enable us trace our Luapula. varieties. farmers at each purchase and reach back to these suppliers and build

Osward Lukonde, a depot clerk at Fimpulu depot, Farmers weighing their cassava at a receiving cassava deliveries from farmers GroAfrica depot in Mansa

Patrick Chama shows off his improved Cassava farmers in Luapula prepare variety cassava their crop for sale to Zambian Breweries.

MUSIKA | 2018 Third Quarter Newsletter 9 Solar energy improves livelihoods of smallholder farmers

Enock Siankwilimba, Regional Manager - Southern The Simuvwenze family can now watch satellite TV using solar energy

or a farmer that owns a herd of 50 wives’ three houses, and his children can Simuvwenze plans to purchase additional cattle, 38 goats and 40 sheep, Patrick now study at night and are no different solar technologies including irrigation FSimuvwenze decided to invest in from others in boarding school. equipment and cooking stove to help solar lighting to enhance security at his “We have extended working hours at our reduce the use of firewood which will homestead to protect his investment home and feel that we’re treated equally reduce pressure on the forests. against theft which is prevalent in his since all our houses are connected to community. the solar lighting system. Our children Musika provided support to Kazang are able to follow current affairs at both Zambia to develop a sustainable rural However, the technology has brought local and international level after we had distribution model for renewable energy additional benefits including the use of satellite TV connected to our home,” said products in unserved markets of Zambia. clean and sustainable energy that has Simuvwenze’s first wife, Lisa. proved to be healthier and is produced at a much lower cost.

Simuvwenze, 53, lives in Kayuni village in Zimba District with his three wives and 20 children, and also grows maize, Sunflower, and cowpeas.

He was introduced to the solar energy system supplied by Kazang, a company supported by Musika, through an agent Stephen Sikalinda who lives in the community.

“I have never liked using paraffin- Kerosine system by my family because of the smoke or even candle lighting due to numerous deaths resulting from fire accidents. So the only alternative for me was to use a car battery to lightup only one house for one of my wives,” he said. Simuvwenze would spend over K3,000 to purchase a car battery including servicing costs every year to light his home using conventional bulbs with a high energy consumption rate. The Kazang solar kit comprising 4 solar bulbs, one torch, 5 phone chargers, solar panel and solar battery costs Patrick Simuvwenze with his about K2,600 on credit payable over a wife Lisa standing below the solar lighting control panel and year at a rate of K200 per month. holding a portable radio set This has enabled him to connect his

10 MUSIKA | 2018 Third Quarter Newsletter Smallholders embrace new mango varieties in Luapula district

By Mabvuto Chisi, Regional Manager - Northern

he mango fruit remains a highly Chankwanka to help the scale up of the valuable product and a source of ‘improved’ mango market opportunity Tincome, especially among women for smallholder farmers that has been farmers in Luapula district. developed by Chankwakwa, with a Therefore, the introduction of improved focus on developing a strong market mango varieties by Chankwankwa for producers in Luapula, where Limited, supported by Musika, has commercial market opportunities were increased the prospect of better scarce and where the impact of an incomes for women like Dorothy improved market for fruit was to be Kanyembo who lives in Kazembe village more significant on rural households. of Mwense district. Kanyembo, 55, has been supplying “ Chankwakwa’s mangoes to Chankwankwa since 2015 and because of the ready market she investments in this decided to plant improved varieties in process have led to the 2016. Kanyembo has been supplying mangoes integration of over 900 to Chankwankwa since 2015 smallholder farmers According to Kanyembo, the extension in Central and Luapula support and training received from commended for bringing the mango Chankwankwa extension staff market at our doors because in the Provinces ...” on various techniques for mango past we never thought that mangoes production, she managed to double could be a reliable source of income. Chankwakwa’s investments in this the production of local mango varieties The company has also given us the process have led to the integration of from 0.3 tonnes in 2015 to 0.5 tonnes opportunity to plant new varieties that over 900 smallholder farmers in Central during the 2016 season will give me better yields,” she said. and Luapula Provinces into the market structures offered by Chankwanka, who This increased further in 2016/2017 Kanyembo uses the income realised now benefit from not just the presence season to 1.2 tonnes of both the local from her mangoe sales to buy fertilizers of an assured market for their produce and improved mango varieties supplied for other crops, and also to meet her but also the delivery of other associated to Chankwankwa at K35 per 25kgs and children’s school requirement. market services such as extension, earning her a total income of K1, 680. training, access to inputs and access to Since 2014, Musika has provided financial services. “Chankwankwa needs to be technical and financial support to

MUSIKA | 2018 Third Quarter Newsletter 11 Warehouse operator brokers partnerships to increase access to credit for smallholders

By Enock Siankwilimba, Regional Manager - Southern

oomba Investments Limited, inputs credit system. against the 15 tonnes of maize grain a grain trading and input deposited. Msupply company, embarked “Within one week of receiving the on a rigourous awareness campaign motor vehicle support from Musika in “I am delighted with this system to sensitise smallholder farmers on August, we conducted three meetings because it allows us farmers to borrow the company’s new warehouse receipt in Pemba and Mabombo shed of inputs without necessarily having to model that offers input credit against Chikanta in Kalomo district attended sell our produce completely. The same grain deposited in its seven ZAMACE by 250 farmers. So far five farmers, grain you deposit acts as collateral certified warehouses located in among them two females and three against the input loan,” said Malambo. Choma, Pemba, Monze and Kalomo males, deposited a total of 47 tonnes Moomba Investments Limited has districts of Southern Province. of maize, 8 tonnes of cowpeas and also brokered a trade partnership 0.3 tonnes of groundnuts,” explained with Emerging Cooking Solutions The company has since signed Moomba Investments proprietor, (ECS), a company providing home MOUs with SeedCo, Pannar, and MRI Armin Scherrer. solar systems, that allows farmers Syngenta to enable farmers access to purchase these on cash basis inputs on credit using the warehouse One of the farmers in Mapanza, Mr or in exchange for grain using the receipt as security. This follows Malambo, managed to access 0.5 warehouse receipt. the technical and financial support tonnes of D-compound fertiliser using received from Musika to establish an the warehouse receipt that was issued

Moomba Investments was among the 15 agribusinesses that were trained on the operations of the warehouse receipt system by ZAMACE and the Southern Africa Trade and Investment Hub in Choma

12 MUSIKA | 2018 Third Quarter Newsletter Zambia – A new gateway for fresh produce trade into Africa By Gift Chanda, Communications Officer

s part of its efforts to support In Zambia, annual consumption is es- tive informal open-air markets”. agricultural diversification, timated at over 1million metric tonnes Supply inconsistencies are high and AMusika organised a high profile (MT) worth more than US$ 330 million. the unpredictability and quality of fresh investors’ meeting to explore invest- Consumption is expected to increase produce volumes result in high price ment opportunities and facilitate pos- to 1,4 million metric ton with a worth of volatility. It is estimated that 43% of By Enock Siankwilimba, Regional Manager - Southern sible commercial partnerships needed some US$ 0,5 billion by 2020. imported fresh fruit and vegetables can to trigger investments into formal and actually be produced locally. commercially viable fresh produce According to Mr Hamusimbi, produc- wholesale markets in Zambia. tion in Zambia is currently at over 1,4 According to Mr Hamusimbi, the some- million tonnes (US$ 235 million) and times unhygienic trading conditions at The meeting was organised in collab- expected to increase to 2,2 million fresh fruit and vegetable markets turn oration with the Indaba Agricultural tonnes by 2020. Net fresh fruit and these into potential “disease hubs” and Policy Research Institute (IAPRI) and vegetable farm sales on the local raise food safety concerns. the USAID Southern African Trade and market is just under 1 million metric Investment Hub, and brought together ton, worth more than US$200 million. Another hurdle to cross is huge 77 local and international investors, Furthermore, it is expected that net post-harvest losses. “Sometimes it goes policymakers, senior government offi- farm sales for the sector will increase up to 30%. Limited cold chain facilities cials and cooperating partners. by an astonishing 50% in 2020. and chaotic marketing systems hamper Speaking during the meeting held the feeding of more people and the on September 13th, 2018 in Lusaka, According to Hamusimbi, the study stabilisation of prices,” he said. Minister of Works and Supply, Hon. shows that the prospects for the fresh Felix Mutati called on the investors to fruit and vegetable sector remain confi- However, these challenges create vast consider investing into a fresh fruit and dent in Zambia. The population growth opportunities for private investors, he vegetable wholesale markets. is at 2,8% and will almost double by added. 2035. Urbanisation is changing rapidly “Look at the profits that can be derived from at an estimated 4% annually and The study results indicate that the from the tomatoes that is currently go- is expected to increase by 121% and an RSA Group’s sales commission-based ing to waste. You can make money out estimated 12,4 million people living in model was found most appropriate for of that but not on a platform of disor- urban Zambia by 2035. Zambia. The model is aimed at protect- der. We need to create order,” he said. ing all players, stimulates competition, At the same event, IAPRI Chief Execu- Interestingly, low income households transparency, efficiency and security of tive Officer, Mr Chance Kabaghe said doubled expenditure on fresh fruit and all transactions. the establishment of a modern, trans- vegetables (14-32%). This segment of parent and competitive fresh fruit and the market now spends 25 ngwee of The model facilitates predefined vegetable wholesaling market would every K-1 spent on food buying fresh commissions for regulated agents and be key in addressing the challenges fruit and vegetables. The medium market authority and help provide the smallholder farmers face and cholera income and wealthier households have much-needed modern trading infra- epidemics especially in the rain season. increased their fresh fruit and vegetable structure and software. The meeting followed a feasibility study consumption by 11% and 5% respec- that was commissioned by Musika and tively. The RSA Group based in South Africa, IAPRI early this year, on the establish- has grown from a single agency on the ment of a structured Zambian Horticul- According to the study, consumption is Johannesburg fresh produce market to tural Wholesale Market. also expected to increase due to the ris- a company that owns market agencies ing healthy-eating momentum among in all major markets (Bloemfontein, In his presentation on the state and higher per capita households. Cape Town, Durban, Johannesburg, potential of the fresh produce sector Mr Hamusimbi warned that while Pretoria and Springs) and two regional in Zambia, Mr Coillard Hamusimbi, a the fresh fruit and vegetable sector is markets at Mooketsi and Polokwane. consultant on the study, observed that growing, opportunity to reach its full Zambia’s horticultural sector is rapidly potential is hampered by the “unregu- growing. lated, non-transparent and uncompeti-

MUSIKA | 2018 Second Quarter Newsletter 13 The mobile Chicken Tractor in the Pongamia pinnata plantation

ignificant progress has first mobile Chicken Tractor that been made in developing will involve the participation of Sa strong foundation for local women’s groups in chicken elite Pongamia pinnata biodiesel and egg production within the production in Zambia through plantation area. In addition, a a partnership between Better 250,000 litre fish pond for supply World Zambia (BWZ) and Konko- of fertigation water has been la Copper Mine (KCM), support- established which will further ed by Musika. contribute to local employment of peri-urban populations through The 5ha plantation for the fish production. Better World Zambia Site Manager, Pongamia pinnata tree species; Kawewe Mwiinga a high yielding nitrogen fixing “The Chicken Tractors will be non-edible plant that produces moved around the plantation oil seed, has survived two years to allow the incorporation of under extreme conditions with a chicken manure in the soil to help survival rate of 99 percent. improve its fertility. The chicken Cecelia Fisonga tend to her soya beans fields The trees will revegetate a disused dump site, improve soil Better World fertility and produce biodiesel. Pongamia is regarded as an ‘ideal’ plant for recovering a variety of Zambia makes waste burdens, such as saline soil The chicken reclamation. The plant restores “ and fish progress in soil to life as the nitrogen and car- production bon feed rich soil microbial com- munities, enabling other plants to intiatives are reclaiming grow on previously dead soil. being tested... disused mining According to BWZ Site Manager, Kawewe Mwiinga, the plantation is the first-of-its kind in the World dump site that has been established on dis- and fish production initiatives are used land on a tailings dam site. being tested in order to provide By Pamela Hamasaka – a source of income for the local Head Corporate Affairs “The trees have yielded pods and community, especially women we expect to start harvesting groups,” he explained. the first oil seed next year. The plantation has provided the proof The BWE project will enable of concept to attract commer- peri-urban and rural communities cial investment to expand the to participate in the production plantation to the targeted 650 of local bioenergy and bio-agri- hectares,” said Mwiinga. cultural products (biopesticides, biofungicides, mosquito larvi- To incorporate local community cides, organic fertiliser). participation, BWE is testing the

14 MUSIKA | 2018 Third Quarter Newsletter 15 Agriculture Minister Hon. Michael Katambo (second from right) launches the Zambian Breweries’ Chembe project in Mabumba village in Mansa

also promotes financial inclusion and will encourage you to save from your Agriculture minister cassava earnings,” Hon Katambo said during the launch, adding that the hails Zambian breweries initiative was in line with government efforts to encourage ICT skills transfer cassava project in the agriculture sector. And Zambian Breweries director of cor- porate affairs Ezekiel Sekele explained By Gift Chanda, cellphone-based blockchain econom- that the project was targeting a large Communications Officer ic-identity technology solution under number of farmers. its cassava project in a bid to enhance griculture Minister Hon. Mi- transparency and traceability. “This year, we are targeting to reach chael Katambo has hailed the 2,000 farmers to be on the technology AZambian Breweries (ZB) cassa- The system provides the farmer, the ag- based platform. Currently, we have va project in Luapula Province, saying gregator and Zambian Breweries itself 1,000 farmers on the system as part of the inclusion of ICT under the scheme with real-time information on deliveries the pilot project,” he explained. will enhance smart agriculture efforts and payments along the supply chain for small-scale cassava farmers. and creates a very high level of trans- Musika, which has supported Zambian parency at the point of buying. Breweries’ commercialisation of the On August 29th 2018, Zambian cassava sector in Luapula since 2016 Breweries introduced a high-tech “Please use this initiative because it through provision of technical and fi- nancial assistance to the company and its intermediaries, is further providing support to the company to pilot the initiative that is running under a system called BanQu.

Zambian Breweries now buys cassava from over 4,000 farmers in Luapula and Northern Provinces of Zambia. The dried cassava is a key ingredient in the manufacture of its affordable Eagle Lager.

Image left: Farmers use a phone to confirm information of their cassava deliveries

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