Zambia Maize Marketing and Processing
1.Zambia Maize Marketing Maize is the most important staple crop in Zambia. Its planting area and production volume is far greater than those of other crops. Smallholders account for 79% of maize production in the country. Other staple crops include cassava, sweet potato, sorghum and millet. Cassava is cooked directly, or floured before cooking as with maize, sorghum and millet. Based on a nationwide survey conducted and some observations on the cropping pattern and income sources of smallholders. First, household of approximately 80% has produced the maize as a staple food; importance of this crop has outstanding in terms of the number of growers, groundnuts(42%) and cassava(39%) is next in line, followed by sweet potato(19%) and sorghum(10%). Looking at the composition of income for all households by crop, cereals including maize have the largest share with 35%, followed by roots and tubers with 18%. Thus, it has been found that maize is the most important crop both in ter...