COMMERCE, Trade and Industry Minister, Chipoka Mulenga, says government will not give out six million hectares of land to Vietnamese investor, Viet-Zam Diversified Operation Limited, because such an action is tantamount to auctioning the country. Viet-Zam has proposed a mega rice farming project in a meeting with the Zambia Development Agency, which requires six million hectares of land. Following the meeting, social media quickly flooded with content claiming that government had agreed to the proposal and allocated the said land to Vietnamese investors. But in a statement, Sunday, ZDA Board Chairperson Biemba Maliti refuted claims that the agency had given six million hectares of land to Viet-Zam. “We wish to categorically state that ZDA does not approve or issue land...