Technical Report: Business Plan and Exit Strategy (Feasibility Study). Increasing the Value and Quality Assurance for the Fresh Vegetables and Herbs Supply Chain to Sun International Hotels in Zambia

摘要

The project was initiated after discussions were held between Sun International and ASNAPP. This feasibility study is intended to indicate the options available for smallholders to supply the high value hotel market. The study revealed that Livingstone currently imports over half of all its vegetable needs from other areas and even as far as from South Africa. There is therefore a market that can be exploited. The major constraints to production that were identified were the problems of seasonality of production and the problems of quality of produce. The proposal is therefore to address the seasonality constraint by two main interventions, firstly by having low cost greenhouses, vegetables can be produced during less optimal periods like the rainfall season when diseases are a major problem. The seasonality problem will also be overcome by developing a cropping program for year round production that will be implemented by the farmers association.