Ministry of Agriculture (Zambia)

In Zambia Agriculture plays a key role of supporting industries by the production of the required raw materials , producing exportable agricultural goods, generating employment particularly in rural areas, as well as providing food stuffs essential for the sustenance of acceptable nutrition standards and levels.

To achieve the Government’s role, the ministry has the following objectives:-
To effectively plan, monitor and evaluate agricultural sector programmes;
To promote agricultural production by provinding policy guidelines to action programmes
To facilitate the policies that would ensure national and regional food security through dependable annual production of adequate suppliesf basic food stuffs at competetive prices;
To ensure that the existing agricultural resource base is well maintained and improved upon
To ensure that policies are formulated and implemented to facilitate the generation of income and employment to maximum feasible levels in all regions through full utilisation of scarce resources realization of domestic and export potential;
To provide policy and institutional framework that would contribute to sustainable industrial development; and
To ensure the contribution of the agricultural sector to the national balance of payments expands by among other things, by providing incentives that would expand agricultural export in line with international comparative advantage.
The Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (MAL) comprises the following Departments. The Department are headed by a Director who reports to the Permanent Secretary.

Department of Agriculture;
Zambia Agriculture Research Institute;
Seed Control and Certification Institute
Department of Co-operatives;
Department of Agri-business and Marketing;
Department of Poilicy and Planning;
Department of Human Resources and Administration;
Department of Livestock Development;
Department of Veterinary Services
Fisheries Department