• 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.
  • 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.
  • Why is Zambia a key player in the regional maize sourcing market?
  • Zambia¡¯s increasing domestic production has enabled the country to become a significant player in the regional maize sourcing market, with the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Zimbabwe especially gaining from importing significant quantities of maize and milled maize meal from Zambia in recent years.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.