Zambia Sugar Company Plc has pumped K840 Billion($210 million) into a project to increase its sugarcane growing areas. Production of sugar is projected to increase from the current 260,000 to 440,000 tonnes due to the additional 10,500 hactares of land under the expansion programme, located in the fertile Mazabuka farming region.
Construction of water canals will cover 30 kilometres from the Kafue river, which is the source of water for irrigation for sugarcane. So far three kilometres of canals have been dug, and eight square kilometres of bush have been cleared.
Times of Zambia
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September 19, 2007
Zambia Sugar Company expands cane project
Categories sugar, sugar cane, Zambia
