“Sustainable Economic Empowerment” is the theme of the 2018 Agriculture and Commercial Show, and ETG has much in stock for their esteemed customers. For some years now, ETG has been successfully participating in the Agriculture and Commercial show, not only for the company to promote its business, but also to assist farmers in expanding in their farming activities.

ETG is best known for its unique blended fertilisers and various agrochemicals which contribute significantly to the upliftment of farmers. In a bid to continue contributing to the success of farmers and the agriculture sector at large, they will display their products yet again at the upcoming show in a more innovative manner.

The ETG staff agronomists will also offer other advanced agronomic services for the benefit of their valued customers. The expert agronomists will present training programmes for their customer farmers. The training sessions will cater for both small-scale and commercial farmers.

The training will be based on the following:

• What are blended fertilisers?
• How to use veg mixes such as Veg A, Veg Mix B, Veg Top 24 and 32
• Timing of application and advantages of vegetable mixes
• How to use chemicals effectively
• The best time to apply chemicals
• How to do soil sampling
• Advantages of using water soluble fertilisers
• Safety during handling of chemicals and other related topics
• Advantages of using Kynoplus compared to ordinary urea
• The benefits of buying Lima packs

The platform will also be open for discussions on all other products offered by ETG. There will be ample time for farmers to ask questions, and the agronomists will be available to respond to all the queries.

50% discount!

In addition to that, the sales team will offer most of the products at a 50% discount to farmers who visit the show. The team will also hand out soluble foliar fertilisers such as one kilogram bags of Veggie Oemffs (Veggie Oemff Starter, Veggie Oemff Grow and Veggie Oemff Fruit/Flower), and Kynoplus for free to customers who interact with the agronomists.

Moreover, as farmers are preparing for the season, ETG will also offer them a package called ‘Lima pack’. This package contains all the inputs required for one season’s crop production. For example, ETG has a Soya pack which consists of the following: seed, fertilisers, herbicides, fungicides, insecticides and foliar fertilisers. The whole idea of offering such a pack is to encourage more farmers to diversify. Farmers usually engage in mono-cropping for a number of years due to various reasons. This practice tends to affect their income and food security. However, with the launch of the various ETG Lima packs, farmers will be able to venture into production of different crops and thereby increase their income.

Furthermore, ETG, in conjunction with the Zambia National Service (ZNS) will prove on the demonstration plots how the best results can be achieved with a variety of crops by using the blended fertilisers (soil specific, crop specific, lime enriched and organic enriched). The crops and fertilisers to be featured include:

Tomato production

• Veg Mix A as basal fertiliser
• Veg Top 24 as top-dressing fertiliser

Tomato hybrid varieties

• Tomato Basal as basal fertiliser
• Tomato Top as a top-dressing fertiliser

Cabbage production

• Cabbage Basal as basal fertiliser
• Cabbage Top as top-dressing fertiliser

Rape, Chinese cabbage, lettuce, broccoli

• Veg Mix B as a basal fertiliser
• Veg Top 24 as top-dressing fertiliser

Onions, carrots, beetroot

• Veg Mix C as basal fertiliser
• Veg Top 24 as top-dressing fertiliser

On top of that, farmers will be given the following guidelines on herbicides:

• The best practices in using herbicides
• Time of application
• Dosage
• Different types of herbicides one can use in different crops
• Different herbicides supplied by ETG

ETG announced that this year, their team will not operate from its usual stand no 10 opposite Zambia Sugar Ltd, but it will occupy its newly allotted stand no 7 adjoining the Zambia National Service (ZNS) demo plot next to the livestock section.

ETG invited all the farmers to visit their stand during the show to gain much needed product knowledge and receive other important agricultural information that will help them to greatly improve their farming activities.