07 January 2020: His Excellency Dr Edgar Chagwa Lungu, President of Zambia Launches Sunbird Bioenergy’s Out-Grower Program in Kawambwa, Luapula Province. The following os news coverage on Prime TV’s evening news. Bwalya Kanyanta Ng’andu (Minister of Finance), Micheal Katambo (Minister of Agriculture), Dr Edgar Lungu (President of Zambia), Richard Bennett (CEO Sunbird Bioenergy) and Nickson Chilangwa (Minister of Luapula Province) President Lungu and Mark Muchinga, Sunbird Bio

His Excellency Dr Edgar Chagwa Lungu President of Zambia today launched Sunbird Bioenergy Zambia’s cassava out-grower program in Kawambwa, Luapula province. The out-grower program will recruit 20,000 local small-holder farmers to grow 700,000 tonnes of sustainable cassava feedstock per year for our biorefinery that is currently under construction. The biorefinery will produce 100 million litres of bioethanol which is approximately 20% of the country’s petrol requirement. I ur