AfDB approves $18m for Zambian livestock project

The African Development Bank (AfDB) Board has approved a concessional loan of $18 million to support a livestock project in Zambia.

The project is under Zambia’s Livestock Infrastructure Development Support Project (LISP) which aims to improve smallholder livestock production in nine districts in the country’s Northern and Muchinga Provinces.

The AfDB says the activities to be implemented under the project include the building of 177 livestock service centres,  three  milk collection centres, two livestock markets, eight livestock slaughter facilities, 80 km of feeder roads, two regional and seven district veterinary laboratories; two veterinary quarantine stations, and five veterinary check points.

The Bank expects the project to directly benefit 100,000 livestock keeping households including 33,600 households headed by women.

It added that about 800,000 people, including 400,000 women, will indirectly benefit from the improved supply of quality livestock products.

By Ekow Quandzie