Zambia Agribusiness Society

Peppers have lots of potential. You can grow different colours, sell the plants, market to restaurants, host tastings and make value-added products. Peppers don’t quite give you as many options as, say, garlic , but here are a few ways you might not have considered for peppers to bring something new to your market table, and your wholesale customers. 1. Sell pepper plants Almost invariably, because I love to grow peppers, I start more plants than I need. But this works out well because selling starts is relatively easy so long as the plants look healthy and are in a nice package. Plants not only make a good addition to the early season market table, but they are a good way to start engaging the first customers of the year and getting them interested in your goods. 2. Grow ornamental peppers If you really enjoy selling plants, you could consider growing some decorative, ornamental pepper plants. These are multi-coloured peppers whose plants can be sold young with the promise o

When most people think of agriculture in Africa, images of poor and overworked farmers with crude tools on a rural farm readily come to mind. Many, especially young Africans, still think that agribusiness is a poor man’s occupation. Nowadays everybody wants a white-collar office job in the city. Agribusiness is hardly on anyone’s mind. Did you know that Africa sits on an agribusiness goldmine but most people just don’t see it? If you’re one of the blind, allow me to open your eyes with a few exciting facts you need to know about agribusiness in Africa: 1.     Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, recently invested $1 billion in rice production. Every year, Africa spends billions of dollars on rice imports, and Dangote wants a slice of the market. 2.     Since 2009, investors in the USA, Europe, Middle East and Asia have been buying and leasing millions of hectares of African land for agricultural purposes. Many people may not know it but there’s a trend of serious land grabbing by