BY Wisdom Mumera.
Harare, Zimbabwe. (News Of The South) – ZimTrade is mobilizing local companies to participate in the forthcoming AgriTech Expo which is to be held in Zambia as a way of growing the market base for local agricultural companies.
The AgriTech Expo is a specialized exhibition for the agricultural sector value chain and is going to be held in Chisamba, Zambia from the 14th to the 16th of April.
The expo showcases agricultural inputs, farm equipment, poultry and fish farming, agro-processing and other things.
“The event is focused on bringing together end users and farming professionals to meet directly with vendor companies”.
“It is a business to business platform for agricultural professionals, small scale farmers and commercial enterprises”, ZimTrade says.
This year’s event will incorporate more interactive feature areas, a technical workshop for farmers and equipment demonstration.
The new interactive features include crop trials, combine harvester arable farming trials as well as irrigation demonstrations.
In 2015 nearly 12 000 agricultural business decision makers and over 110 exhibitors from 29 countries in Africa, America, Europe and Middle East participated at the Expo.

