Youth beneficiaries of poultry farming inputs praise the Zambian government

Over 200 youths in Chililabombwe have this year been empowered with poultry farming stocks and agriculture farming inputs. Speaking to ZANIS today, Chililabombwe District Administrative Officer Chipawa Chipawa said the youths were empowered through 19 cooperatives and given day-old chicks, feeders, drinkers and stock feed while others were given inputs that included maize seed and fertilizer. Mr Chipawa said the intention for the empowerment was to enable youths to take advantage of the ready markets at Kasumbalesa boarder. He said government realized that such initiatives will help improve the general economy of the district as the youths start to engage in economic activities. And Mr. Chipawa described the empowerment programme as successful owing to the good yields from the investments. He attributed the success to the efforts made by the district administration to monitor the skill and infrastructure capacity of the beneficiaries and provision of the necessary capacity ...