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The Zambia Agricultural Research Institute (ZARI), which falls under the Ministry of Agriculture, is Zambia's largest agriculture research institute. [2] It is mandated is to provide specialized research and advice to farmers and the government. ZARI is one of the principal research organizations studying grains in Zambia. [3]
The Ministry of Fisheries and Livestock (MOFL) is a ministry of the government of the Republic of Zambia whose role is ensuring the sustainable utilisation of fisheries and livestock. [1] Peter Kapala is the current minister of the ministry. [1]
The WCA 2020 programme [1] featured the discussion of four methodological modalities for conducting a census of agriculture: the classical (one-off) approach; the modular approach, which was introduced in the WCA 2010; the integrated census/survey modality, involving rotating survey modules over the inter-census years; and the combined census ...
The 2022 census of Zambia was a detailed enumeration of the Zambian population that became the sixth national census in the country since independence. It began on August 18, 2022 and concluded by September 14, 2022. [1] It became Zambia's first-ever digitally conducted population census. [2]
In 2022, Zambia averages between $7.5 billion and $8 billion of exports annually. [119] [120] It totaled $9.1 billion worth of exports in 2018. [121] In 2015, about 54.4% of Zambians lived below the recognised national poverty line, improved from 60.5% in 2010. [122] Rural poverty rates were about 76.6% and urban rates at about 23.4%. [123]
Once the information is gathered and interpreted, NASS issues estimates and forecasts for crops and livestock and publishes reports on a variety of topics including production and supplies of food and fiber, prices paid and received by farmers, farm labor and wages, farm income and finances, and agricultural chemical use. NASS's field offices ...
Zambian exports in 2006. Zambia is a developing country, and it achieved middle-income status in 2011.Through the first decade of the 21st century, the economy of Zambia was one of the fastest-growing economies in Africa, and its capital, Lusaka, the fastest-growing city in the Southern African Development Community (SADC). [18]
Cattle are the mainstay of the traditional economy, and are sold in the population centres further east when money is required for cash goods or school or medical expenses. Crops are grown on the fertile Barotse floodplains and along the margin of the flood plain, in particular maize, rice, millet and vegetables.