Top news items in major Zambia media outlets

The following are news highlights in Zambia's major media outlets on Thursday.

-- About 20 percent of Zambia's agricultural produce goes to waste because of lack of proper storage facilities.

Minister of Agriculture Dora Siliya said Zambia can position itself as a net export of grain in the southern African region if it developed improved storage facilities. (Times of Zambia)

-- Zambia's power utility spent in excess of 250 million U.S. dollars on emergency power imports from 2015 to date to cushion a power deficit the country has been facing.

Saidi Chimya, director of finance at Zesco Limited said the power utility has been importing electricity from Eskom of South Africa, Karpower Ship, EDM and Aggreko. (Zambia Daily Mail)

-- Zambian President Edgar Lungu has urged citizens to consider investing in fish farming as a way of earning a living and creating employment.

Lungu said fish farming was a lucrative venture which needed to be encouraged among Zambians.(Daily Nation)

-- Zambia should consider adopting Bt cotton, a genetically modified organism variety in order to resolve the bollworm problem and improve productivity, an agricultural think-tank has said.

The Indaba Agricultural Policy Research Institute said the adoption of the genetically modified cotton which produces an insecticide could effectively tackle the bollworm problem and help boost Zambian farmers productivity and profitability.(The Mast) Endit