VP Banda salutes Zambia Sugar

Zambia: Veep Salutes Zambia Sugar
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
VICE-President, Rupiah Banda, has saluted Zambia Sugar and the Islamic Trust for partnering with the Government in intervening into the flood situation  ... Mr Banda said Zambia Sugar had shown its commitment to helping people in times of need other than just making profits, by donating to the victims of the flooding in the Southern Province. Mr Banda said this when he received K60 million, 200 X 25kg bags of mealie meal worth K11million donated by Zambia Sugar Plc and 800 X 12.5kg bags of mealie meal from the Islamic Trust for flood victims.He said the above normal rainfall received in some parts of Zambia this season had left a trail of devastating effects on infrastructure such as bridges, roads and submersion and erosion of crop fields ... Speaking earlier, Zambia Sugar Plc managing director, Paul de Lorillard, said his company had made tremendous progress in its K840 billion expansion project, launched by President Mwanawasa in September 2007. He said the project would involve 50 per cent increase in cane crushing capacity of the factory and the construction of 32 klometres of canals to deliver irrigation water to new areas ... The project would raise annual production from 200 000 tonnes to 440 000 tonnes ...