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Export tax on the verge of killing Zambian crocodile industry

19/12/2019
The Zambian Crocodile Farmers Association (ZCFA) has said the country is in danger of losing all the benefit of its crocodile sector because of a 10% export duty that the government imposed at the start of 2019.

In 2018, Zambia exported almost 32,000 farmed crocodile skins, but projections the 2019 total will be 22,000 this year; this would be half of the number of skins exported in 2015.

ZCFA chairman, Johann Jordan, has told local media that farmers were finding it difficult to raise the cash to pay the export tax up front. He said the farmers need this revenue to run their farms and that the tax was “on the verge of killing the industry”.



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