Given Chipata’s strategic location as a corridor City surrounded by a rich agricultural and productive hinterland, this high growth rate is expected to continue over the next 10 to 20 years. Chipata’s economy is based on agriculture, quarry mining, trade, and limited value addition to agriculture and cash crop products which includes; cotton, maize, groundnuts, potatoes, soya beans, sunflower, and tobacco. Though much of the crop produce is transported in raw form to Lusaka for processing or exported to neighboring countries. Chipata strategically shares an international boundary with Malawi border and is a node on the Lusaka-Chipata agricultural corridor. It is also on the major route to Malawi and Mozambique and the Nacala Corridor, promoted by the Common Market for East and Southern Africa (COMESA) and the African Development Bank (AfDB) as Regional Growth Triangle.