The most commonly grown crops are maize, millet, sorghum, groundnuts, beans, and rice. Most of the food produced is consumed within the province, though a small percentage is bought by traders for resale along the line of rail. There are very few farmers who grow crops on a commercial basis in the province.
Most of the people are peasant subsistence farmers using the traditional " slash and burn " shifting cultivation locally known as "chitemene", and are barely able to even produce enough to feed themselves. There is also some commercial fishing being done on Lake Tanganyika by established fishing companies in Mpulungu. Most of the fish caught is taken for sale in Lusaka and the Copperbelt on refrigerated trucks. Fishing is also done by small-scale fishermen, who sell their small catches to local traders and others who resell the fish in the nearby towns of Mbala and Kasama.
In turn, Zambia also imports Kapenta small, dried fish and other merchandise from these two countries, as well as Tanzania, through the same port.
The total area of crops planted during the year in the province was , The net production stood at , metric tonnes, which formed 8. Mixed beans was the major crop in the province with 31, metric tonnes, constituting See Wikipedia's guide to writing better articles for suggestions.
October Learn how and when to remove this template message Northern Province has poor communication infrastructure. The telecommunication facilities, which were obsolete until , have somewhat improved with the introduction of cellular phone services in all 12 districts.
