• There is high potential of trade between Zambia and Botswana in the agriculture sector
• There is high potential for trade in livestock and livestock feed
• Zambia should emulate Botswana’s achievement of exporting about nine thousand tonnes of beef to European Union annually

Zambia’s Acting High Commissioner to Botswana says there is high potential of trade between Zambia and Botswana in the agriculture sector especially in the areas of livestock and livestock feed.
Speaking when a team of Zambia Defence Services Command and Staff College Delegation paid a courtesy call on him, Brighton Litula explained that there is high potential for trade in livestock and livestock feed between the two countries given that Zambia has a large population of cattle.
Mr. Litula said Zambia should emulate Botswana’s achievement of exporting about nine thousand tonnes of beef to the European Union annually.
“We want to learn how they are able to achieve such a milestone. We are working around with our colleagues here to see how best we can leverage our cordial bilateral relations in this country,” Mr Litula said.
He revealed that it is for this reason that Zambia is working to see how best the country can leverage the cordial bilateral relations in this country.
Mr Litula added that there is also a high demand of Zambian education by Batswana at the tertiary level offered by Zambian Institutions and Universities.
And He further noted that Kazungula Bridge is a symbol of the high-level cooperation that exists between Zambia and Botswana which had so far brought tremendous mutual benefits to both countries.
Meanwhile, Mr. Litula revealed that Botswana and Zambia relations are anchored on two frameworks namely; the Joint Permanent Commission on Defence and Security (JPCDS) and the Joint Permanent Commission on Cooperation (JPCC).
He stated that the two countries are considering elevating the framework to a binational cooperation to be headed by the Heads of State from Botswana and Zambia.
Mr. Litula added that so far, 23 sessions of the JPCDS have been held with the recent one being in June which resulted in the signing of three (3) agreements between the two countries in various areas aiming at strengthening of co-operations in defence and security matters.
“These are the Memorandum of Agreement on Defence Cooperation, Treaty on Extradition and Treaty on Mutual Legal Assistance,” he stated.