Dear Farmer going into Maize Production test your soils
4 bags compound D and 4 Bags Urea was from a study in the 1970s. Soils aren’t identical and if we don’t address this gap small scale farmers will continue to be unproductive!
LOAD SHEDDING - Why the Approach Was Always Wrong
By Malik.
So, HH met Aliko Dangote yesterday and as usual, the lights were probably out somewhere while they talked about how to end load shedding. Dangote, being the businessman he is, said it straight: “There’s no economic growth without power.”
And he’s right. Zambia has been trying to run a 21st-century economy on 1960s power logic i.e. praying for rain and betting on sunshine. The approach has always been wrong.
Let’s be honest, the 1,000 MW solar plan sounds fancy until you remember one small detail: the sun sets. You can’t power the Copperbelt with vibes and daylight. Solar is like that friend who only shows up when things are bright and disappears when life gets dark. We don’t have the luxury of running an entire grid on good weather.
Meanwhile, factories, hospitals, and data centres don’t care about daylight hours. They want constant power. And no amount of ribbon-cutting on solar farms will keep the lights on at midnight.
Coal is The Villain That Saves the Hero. Now, before someone screams “carbon emissions!”, let’s get real. Zambia’s entire carbon footprint is a mosquito bite compared to global emitters. Germany, the climate preacher, is still burning coal. China builds a coal plant every other week. Even South Africa runs on coal.
Yet here we are, banning ourselves from using what we have in abundance. It’s like owning a maize field but starving because you’re waiting for imported rice.
Coal keeps lights on. Simple. Reliable. Proven. You can’t industrialise without baseload power and coal delivers that better than any green project proposal written in an air-conditioned office.
Moreover, modern clean-coal technology exists. Emission control systems, carbon capture etc suggests that the world is moving toward efficient coal, not abandoning it. We can burn smarter.
Zambia has reserves sitting idle while we pretend solar panels will save us. We don’t need imported panels; we need domestic power. We don’t need to lease the sun; we need to mine what we already own.
Coal is not the enemy, it’s the bridge between darkness and development. Every time load shedding hits, someone runs to a podium to announce another solar plant. But let’s be serious, if solar was the magic bullet, why are countries with ten times our panels still using coal?
Solar is perfect for backup, for homes, for lighting villages off the grid. But for industrial Zambia? For mines? For copper smelters? It’s a joke and not a funny one. Dangote Gets It
President HH ducks as stones are thrown at stage by unknown people. This happened as the President was addressing residents of Chingola after visiting recently gutted Chiwempala market.
A doctor in Burkina Faso who publicly criticized President Ibrahim Traoré for failing to tackle terrorism was arrested, trained and sent straight to the battlefield
Captain Traoré reportedly said, “If the doctor thinks he knows better, let him contribute directly!”