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Top news items in major Zambia media outlets

Xinhua,December 26, 2017 Adjust font size:

LUSAKA, Dec. 26 (Xinhua) -- The following are news highlights in Zambia's major media outlets on Tuesday.

-- Zambian President Edgar Lungu has directed the agriculture officials to take all necessary steps to help farmers respond to the possibility of increased danger of the army worm pest, which was devastating maize fields in some parts of the country.(Times of Zambia)

-- Zambia is among Southern and East African countries to benefit from the 15 million euros allocated to the new Energy and Environment Partnership Trust Fund (EEP Trust Fund) by Finland.(Zambia Daily Mail)

-- The Zambian government has set up a Task Force to facilitate export of goats to Saudi Arabia following an agreement signed between the two countries.(Daily Nation)

-- A farmers' body has asked the Zambian government to apologize for the lost opportunity this farming season wing to delayed distribution of inputs under a government subsidized e-voucher system.(The Mast) Enditem