EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Rushyford Farm was duly registered with the Patents and Companies Registration Agency (PACRA) of Zambia on the 10th day of December 2002 under the Registration of Business Names Act of the Laws of Zambia. The farm is engaged in mixed agriculture as the core line of business at Farm No. 1635 in Sibanyati Area of Choma District, Southern province in the Republic of Zambia. The farm is approximately 26.5 kilometers west of Choma Central Business District (CBD) and covers an area of 6,844.494 acres (2,769.868ha), with more than 1,550ha of land already cleared for cultivation. Since its inception, the farm has been into tobacco farming and occasionally planted barley, wheat and maize. With growing concerns on increased food insecurity and the decrease in the demand for tobacco world over, Rushyford Farm has decided to diversify its agricultural practices from single cropping, particularly tobacco which has been the main cash crop grown by the developer to multiple cropping with the view of contributing to the food basket locally and internationally. This diversification comes with increased demand for water supply to irrigate the new crops being introduced at the farm, thus the need to expand the existing earth-fill dam. The demand for water supply to irrigate the crops at Rushyford Farm has further been exacerbated by the drought experienced the last rainy season. The new crops being introduced at the farm and to be irrigated from the stormwater harvested in the expanded earth-fill dam include avocados, carrots and pecan nuts.