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Article: Zambian Urbanites Urged to Include Traditional Food in Diet
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- October 13, 2001
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The Zambian government Saturday called on people living in urban
areas to include traditional foodin their diet so as to improve
their nutritional status.
Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Agriculture Russell Mulele
said that traditional food is not only affordable but has high
nutritional value and flavor as well as variety.
Mulele made the remarks at the Open Day of the Promotion of Urban
Consumption of Zambian Traditional Food and the launch of the Recipe
Book on Zambian Traditional Food held here on Saturday.
He noted that consumption of such food in most households is low
in cities, attributing the phenomenon to the knowledge gap between
the urban and rural dwellers on their ...