Mazabuka

Mazabuka is a predominantly agricultural town in the Southern Province of Zambia with a population of 130,000, to about 1,200 meters above sea level. It is 150 kilometers west of the capital, Lusaka, on the road and railway Lusaka - Livingstone, south of the Kafue floodplains. It is the seat of the administration of the district of the same with 203 219 inhabitants ( 2000 census ).

Economy

Mazabuka is surrounded by sugar cane plantations. On the outskirts there's the sugar factory, which produces most of Zambia's sugar. Otherwise, his business life is focused on agriculture and its machinery and tooling needs.

It is a city with high immigration because the sugar farms in the region of the fertile Kafueauen include not only the mines of the most important employers in Zambia. In addition to the sugar cane fields, small farmers have settled who grow corn and thus operate in the floodplain of dairy farming, and meat production. Meanwhile, the agriculture to cotton, peanuts, and soy has been extended.

These enterprises have experienced a remarkable increase in recent years. In almost all branches of the FAO noted a shortage of labor ( 2005). This agricultural orientation of the city can hardly collect accurate population figures. It is an agrarian agglomeration ( with Bascom: rus in urbe ), whose center is the city whose economic, social, political and technical infrastructure used by all. 70 percent of the agricultural land around Mazabuka are artificially irrigated.

Infrastructure

Mazabuka has primary and secondary schools and several hospitals. It has two main streets, each with a number of banks, shops and restaurants. Tourists visit it often.