Chitambo District is a district of Central Province,

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in 2012 and is located some 357km north-east of

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along the Great North Road. It shares borders with

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Livingstone Memorial The Livingstone Memorial, built in 1899, marks the spot where missionary explorer David Livingstone died on 1 May 1873, in Chief Chitambo's village at Chipundu (today in Chitambo District), near the edge of the Bangweulu Swamps in Zambia. His bod ...

is located within this district.

Agriculture and Agro-processing

Chitambo District has a very good rainfall distribution throughout the rain season, favoring agriculture production. In addition, the district soil profile supports crop agriculture, especially leguminous crops such as beans, soya beans and pigeon peas. Other crops that have high potential and are grown in the district include; finger millet, sweet potatoes, groundnuts, sunflower, pumpkins, watermelons, pineapples, and other vegetable crops are grown off-season. The district claims having over 15,000 small-scale farmers. With high number of small scale farmers and wide variety of crops produced in the District, opportunities exist for investment in agro-processing and packaging of the crops produced. The many small scale farmers could easily form out-grower schemes to support sustained supply of the required input for processing to eastern markets via Tanzania, western markets via Congo DRC and locally.

References

Districts of Central Province, Zambia {{Zambia-geo-stub