The Nakambala Expansion Project was launched. The agriculture and milling expansion was completed on schedule in April 2009 and was commissioned on 9 December 2009, as the largest single investment made in the Zambia agricultural industry to that date.  The expansion effectively doubled the cane crushing capacity of the factory, to process the increased cane supply resulting from an expanded sugarcane growing area. On the agricultural side, the expansion entailed the construction of a network of dams, canals, pipelies, pump stations, roads and power infrastructure to service the new areas of sugarcane development, which. have all been planted under entre pivot irrigation systems.