Government has been urged to consider setting an attractive maize floor price during the 2018 maize marketing season to attract farmers to sale their maize to the Food Reserve Agency in view of the anticipated low yields this season. UPND Chairman for Rural Reconstruction and Development Moono Mapani feels if the government does not offer farmers a good price, there ...

Smart Zambia National Coordinator, Martine Mulenga has disclosed that over 169,000 out of the 209,000 civil servants across the country have been captured under Electronic pay slips as of December 2017. In an interview with Q-News, Dr. Mulenga says this leaves about 60,000 civil servants who are yet to be put on Electronic pay slips. He says civil servants in rural areas who ...

Civil Society for Poverty Reduction (CSPR) Executive Director, Patrick Nshindano says severe hunger looming in the country in view of the continued dry spells being experienced in most parts. Mr. Nshindano says regrettably the looming hunger will most likely affect those who are already wallowing in abject poverty. He is hoping that Government will quickly move in to arrest the ...