{"id":5739,"date":"2019-10-04T08:30:51","date_gmt":"2019-10-04T05:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=5739"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:35","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:35","slug":"zambia-dr-congo-ink-deal-to-export-maize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/10\/04\/zambia-dr-congo-ink-deal-to-export-maize\/","title":{"rendered":"Zambia, DR Congo Ink Deal To Export Maize"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>By Michael Chawe<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Zambian government said on Wednesday it had signed a deal to export to 600,000 metric tonnes of maize to the neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo from next year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Zambia\u2019s\nAgriculture Minister Michael Katambo said the deal signed in Lusaka between the\ntwo governments will also cover other commodities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe\nexports under the MoU will start in 2020, as Zambia is coming from a bad season\nand currently does not have enough maize stocks to accommodate exports,\u201d Mr\nKatambo said after&nbsp;the&nbsp;signing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Under the deal, Zambia will also export mealie-meal, the country\u2019s staple food, which was \u2018largely\u2019 being smuggled into DR Congo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mr\nKatambo added that the agreement will address the concerns regarding export\nrestrictions and earn foreign exchange as well as capturing statistics for\nplanning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For\nhis part, Congolese minister of national trade and commerce Jean Lucien Bussa\nsaid the two countries could boost trade by taking advantage of their vast\nborder\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theeastafrican.co.ke\/business\/Zambia-DR-Congo-ink-deal-to-export-maize\/2560-5295886-3sq78ez\/index.html\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Michael Chawe The Zambian government said on Wednesday it had signed a deal to export to 600,000 metric tonnes of maize to the neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo from&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5740,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}