Why is Zambia a good location to run a poultry business?
Commercial farming is relatively strong in Zambia and they’ve got good maize, soya bean and wheat farmers. In order to farm chickens you need a good raw material supply. If you haven’t got maize and soya you can’t produce chicken feed. Zambia is currently self-sufficient in maize, soya and wheat and these raw materials are readily available, which is not the case elsewhere in Africa, apart from South Africa. Zambia also has plenty of water, fantastic soil, very high rainfall and good crop growing conditions. In addition, it is possible to fly from Lusaka to all Zambia’s eight neighboring countries, allowing easy access to all these markets. For us, another advantage of Zambia is that the population speaks English – it is not like the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), where the official language is French, or Angola, where people speak Portuguese. It is very difficult to trade in a country where you can’t speak the language. Unlike in South Africa, Astral’s Zambian operations do not c
