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Agriculture
Corporation has recently converted its facilities into
bulk handling.
NMC has strengthened its leadership in the market
and has developed the strongest distribution net-
work in Zambia, with 20 depots around the country,
providing maize and flour with “Lusaka prices” to its
consumers around Zambia.
The NMC has developed strategic partnerships with
Zambian farmers and created incentive schemes
to increase yields and improve the quality of wheat
produced. By developing 4 different grades of wheat
quality (premium, A, B and C), National Milling Cor-
poration has a better control of the quality of flour
produced. NMC produces high protein and high
quality flour that is ideally suited to the baking of
bread and pastries.
SEED CO LTD.
Morgan Nzwere
Managing Director
Makeni Rd.
PO Box 35310, Lusaka
Tel: +260-211-272520/272521
Fax: +260-211-273390
seedco@seedco.co.zm
Seed Co Ltd has been actively involved in the pro-
duction of quality seeds in Zambia and has built up
a very reputable brand among farmers within the
country, as well as surrounding regions. The merger
of two associations in 1983 (Seed Maize Associa-
tion and Crop Seeds Association) resulted in the
formation of the Seed Co-operative Company of
Zimbabwe, which consolidated the activities of both.
Administration, planning, production, processing and
distribution of all seeds was much more efficient with
this new organization.
At a landmark meeting in May 1996, the Seed Co-
op members agreed to make the organization pub-
lic, which led to the raising of Z $45 million of new
shares and the quoting of Seed Co Ltd on the Zimba-
bwe Stock Exchange in July of the same year.
Capital raised from Seed Co’s IPO was used to in-
crease seed conditioning capacity and small pack-
ing, to create an export division of the firm, to es-
tablish an export processing zone, as well as the
purchase of another research station in Kadoma.
The Kadoma Research Centre, Seed Co’s second
research facility was purchased in 1996, providing
an invaluable site for the evaluation of seed varieties
needed in the farming sector.
Regional expansion now extends to wholly owned
operations in Zambia, Botswana and Malawi, and
a majority ownership of SEMOC in Mozambique.
A research and technical agreement with Syngenta
and the formation of Syngenta Seedco Pty Ltd South
Africa, in which Seed Co Ltd holds a 49% share, has
been created. Seed research, production and distri-
bution are being actively pursued in each of these
countries in order to extend Seed Co’s business in-
terests in Africa. In the pursuit of business growth
and expansion, an East African business unit has
recently been established in Nairobi, Kenya.
Seed Co. Zambia is continually researching new and
improved varieties of seeds other than the currently
available seed products. Seeds are constantly being
assessed in terms of yield, quality, disease tolerance
and agro-ecological adaptability. Seed Co. Zambia
is eager to work with, or better inform international
investors and businesses about doing business in
Zambia.
TOBACCO ASSOCIATION OF ZAMBIA
Knox M. Mbazima
General Manager
Plot 5055, Mungwi Rd., Lusaka
Tel: +260-211-288853 / 55
Fax: +260-211-286635
The overall objective of the Tobacco Association of
Zambia (TAZ) is to foster developments for the to-
bacco industry in Zambia and to protect the interests
of tobacco growers. The Association is responsible
for representing tobacco farmers in agro-related
flora. It also represents the tobacco farmers in ne-
gotiations for tobacco prices and general marketing
of the crop.
TAZ’s mission is to promote and foster the develop-
ment of the flue-cured tobacco industry in Zambia
in a representative and fully inclusive and equal
manner, for the benefit of the tobacco growers, their
employees, their customers and the Republic of
Zambia.
Each grower who is a member of the Association has
equal rights and responsibilities within the TAZ Con-
stitution, irrespective of the size of the enterprise,
which currently varies from less than one hectare to
more than 200 hectares.