Along with the rest of the economy, per capita output in Zambia’s agricultural sector has been in long-run decline.
On a crop-by-crop basis the picture is more nuanced. The decline in maize production since maize market liberalisation in the early 1990s has been partly offset by increased production of other crops, but diversification into other crops has been geographically concentrated.Many farmers, especially in remote locations, have reverted to production of old staple crops rather than diversified into highvalue outputs. This article describes this situation from the point of view of Northern Province.
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This article comes from the IDS Bulletin 36.2 (2005) Agricultural Development in Zambia’s Northern Province: Perspectives from the Field Level
