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Chibbonta Chilalal's Page
Profile Information
- Organisation
- Yambeeji honey and rice products limited
- Title
- Chief executive officer
- About My Work
- We are a honey and rice processing company, in the process of implementing an outgrower scheme, we mainly support small sacle farmers in improving their productivity, buy and process for sale the mainl the rice and at a small scale honey, we set up our operations in one of zambia's least developed province, we aim at reducing the poverty in the area and bringing industry to process and add value to traditionally already existing activities such as rice faming and honey cropping from the wild forest known to be the best in the world for its medicinal value, we hope by working with the farmers will help reduce deforestation by farmers which has increased over the recent past years by introducing conservative farming practices.
- Sector
- Business
- Country Interest
- Zambia
- Issues of Interest
- Inclusive Business: Value Chains, Inclusive Business: Products and Services, Low carbon and climate resilient business models, Working in partnership, Working with farmers & the informal sector, Driving & managing change inside the company
- Main Reason for Joining this Site
- Finding partners and/or Facility support for project delivery
Chibbonta Chilalal's Blog
YamBEEji rice intensefication
I am so happy to read about the rice project in Asia particularly Indonesia and India. The objective of your project is exactly what we are trying to achieve here in Zambia, we are working with farmer groups who have been cultivating rice using conventional methods on the plains of the Zambezi river and have been producing low volumes such as 1.2mt per hectare. We also started farming in 2006 partnering with a group of farmers to produce rice and later on bought a rice mill to polish it for…
ContinuePosted on December 31, 2011 at 12:14 — 5 Comments
YamBEEji Rice Contracts over 240 farmers for new rice variety
YamBEEji Honey and Rice has multiplied new rice variety in zambia in the last season amounting 1mt are used it to contract new farmers in non rice traditional flooding rice growing areas, this has attracted many people in the country. The company has also partenered with Lumwana Mines in its effort for social responsibility were farmers are being supported in rice growing and upto 30 farmers have been adopted to grow the new variety for the first farmer, and in mufumbwe over 50 farmers have…
ContinuePosted on December 30, 2011 at 18:33 — 2 Comments
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