• Who owns a new milling plant in Zambia?
  • The National Milling Corporation, an affiliate of American agribusiness and transport conglomerate, Seaboard Corporation commissioned a new US$37.5 million milling plant in 2019 in Lusaka, Zambia, with a capacity to mill 600 metric tonnes of wheat per day, replacing its ageing mill in the City.
  • Does African milling have a maize mill?
  • African Milling Limited, one of Zambia¡¯s major integrated wheat and maize flour milling operations also commissioned its newly installed maize mill with a capacity of 336 MT per day plus 50,000 MT storage capacity in 2019, increasing the miller¡¯s capacity from the previous 168 MT per day, which was commissioned in 2006.
  • Who are the biggest grains companies in Zambia?
  • Mount Meru Millers Zambia is another grains sector giant in Zambia, with a versatile plant that processes soya beans, sunflower and cotton seed with a 250 MT per day refinery plus an expeller with a capacity of 250 MT per day installed in 2018.
  • How many grain mills are there in Zambia?
  • According to MAZ, Zambia has a total number of 78 grain milling operations: 20 large scale, 27 medium scale and 31 small scale millers located in the four provinces of Lusaka, Copperbelt, Northern Province and Central Province, processing mainly maize into local favourite mealie meal, a local delicacy.
  • Is Global Industries Limited investing in Zambia’s soya bean value chain?
  • Global Industries Limited (GIL) has also joined the investment craze in Zambia¡¯s soya bean value chain, investing US$20 million to expand its processing plant in 2018 to double its edible oil production capacity to 100,000 tonnes a day, on top of the US$14 million investment it had made in 2016 in its plant.
  • How much maize does Zambia produce a year?
  • According to statistics from the US Department of Agriculture, from 1990 to 2008, Zambia¡¯s maize production stagnated at about 1.2 million MT per year, registering nearly two decades of loss in the race to the country¡¯s quest to become one of Africa¡¯s largest maize producers.