Thursday, April 18, 2024

Government commends West farmers for high crop production

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Agriculture Permanent Secretary Dr. Sam Mundia has commended farmers in Western Province for harvesting 41,353 metric tonnes of maize compared to last year’s 32,487 metric tonnes.

Dr. Mundia has since appealed to farmers in the province to properly secure their
harvest to avoid it getting destroyed.

He has also appealed to farmers to consider planting drought resistant crops  to
boost food security in the province.

Dr. Mundia warned farmers not to sell the 60% subsided fertilizer.

Officiating at this year’s Mongu agriculture and commercial show, Mr Mundia  said
the selling of subsidized fertilizer by some farmers was impeding government efforts
to boost the agriculture industry in the country.

He said government through the Fertilizer Support Programme (FSP), was committed to
enhancing food production among the small scale farmers around the country.

Dr. Mundia also disclosed that government has allocated K110 million towards
irrigation farming at Namushakende Farm Institute in  Mongu.

He said irrigation was one of the government priorities in agriculture production.

Dr. Mundia further  disclosed that K63 million has been allocated to rejuvenate the
cashew industry in Western  province.

He also said government will next year carry out a tse-tse fli eradication campaign
in Sesheke and Shangombo districts by spraying an area of about 20,000 square km in
the two districts.

Dr. Mundia said  the project was part of the Pan-African tse-tse fly eradication
campaign.

Dr. Mundia  appealed to farmers to join or form cooperatives as they were a vehicle
for development in rural areas.

21 COMMENTS

  1. What I hope this a long time plan not ati next year hunger. Tse tse fly we hope not just words we need the results and other measure taken to prevent the environment. I have noted that Paparrazi and Anonymus has disapeared. Could one of them be pragamtist? Help boys. Cyber help pilz clear the air I mean not pollute it.

  2. Russia’s top general said this week that Poles should buy gas masks if they let the United States deploy missiles on their territory. The RIA Novosti news agency reported that on Monday Army Gen. Yury Baluyevsky, the chief of staff of the Russian armed forces, met with journalists in Moscow and told a reporter from the Polish newspaper Trybuna in answer to a question that if Poland went ahead with plans to allow the United States to deploy 10 anti-ballistic missile interceptors on its territory in the next few years, the Polish people should start buying gas masks and other protective gear. Baluyevsky said these precautions would be necessary because if ballistic missiles with dangerous warheads were shot down over Polish territory, the country would be contaminated with dangerous materials.”The decision to place (the shield) on Polish soil was taken by the Polish government. It seems to fully realize what kind of retaliation this may lead to … What they really should be

  3. concerned about is what will happen in the event that the shield works at all,” Baluyevsky said according to the RIA Novosti report.”Intercepted missiles will disperse over your territory, and you will need to think not about warm clothes, but about acquiring gas masks and other protective equipment,” he said. Russian President Vladimir Putin has spearheaded fierce Russian protests against the deployment of 10 U.S. ballistic missile interceptors in Poland and an advanced BMD radar installation in the Czech Republic in the next few years. Earlier this month, Russia also pulled out of the 1990 Conventional Forces in Europe Treaty, one of the cornerstones of detente and security in Europe over the past two decades

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  5. Chapi (88),
    You Blabbermouth slob, where do you get the credence to vainly acquire a human face with your dizzy heard here? Easy’s rhetoric on that Kasai thief is on the money while Patron speaks with sincerity on the Kaela Mulenga vagabond. Instead of you sanitizing your dizzy Joze aka Chatter box (27) full of insanity, vanity and despicable life time failures, you are trying to inhibit logic of sincere debaters. No wonder you are another one predestined to end your journey in places of trolling only when others are in exponential break through turning into time’s economic empires.

  6. The government should provide nicely equiped storage houses for poor farmers to protect damaging of maize, its our stable food thats why we have to conserve it properly.

  7. Chiluba refuses to pay K1.5bn demanded by Mulenga’s family
    FORMER president Frederick Chiluba has refused to pay the K1.5 billion demanded by the family of the late Benson Mulenga for the K10, 000 he is alleged to have obtained from Mulenga’s group life insurance over 20 years ago. However, Chiluba has offered to help the family with some money, though the help may not be substantial as he is “also financially struggling”.In an interview yesterday, Mulenga’s son, Buselic Mfula, demanded that Chiluba pays the K1.5 billion for the K10, 000 he obtained from his late father’s group life insurance at Zambia State Insurance Corporation (ZSIC)

  8. Easy # 7. So you mean these guys in Poland want to risk their lives because of the Americans. Those missiles will be shot from North Korea and Iran and intercepted in Poland.
    Kadansa #13. So FTJ started a long time stealing. Even from individuals. The guy never deserved State House. He’s got a bad CV.

  9. I can see sanity gradually being restored after the spam from the so called Chatter Box (37 erased) and his imaginary battles. My message to such framers and their terrorist communication is simply unscripted, “I am above your subnormal thinking by capacity and skills”. If you want, sufficiently just challenge me in debates bordering on the Zambian destiny. I respect legally binding free flow of opinions and ideas in consistence with the Zambian constitution per universal freedom of speech chatter. Thus, will never be a party to any mechanism of inhibiting logic anywhere. Instead, I stand to sufficiently rebuttal propagated inaccuracies emotionally driven or other wise. I will forever use my God given talent and brainpower in independent analysis. I may occasionally browse through blogs, but mainly contribute my views on Mondays only due other value adding commitments a pattern frames have failed to establish. Now, personal to the chap impersonating my ID, “you are free to share the Pragmatist ID”. But be advised like my IP, am too safe to be messed up by your helpless sick mind. Not even your erased Arabic terror correspondence insinuating as coming from my secured IP is anything to succeed soiling me. Instead, you have proved unsophisticatedly vulnerable and desperate without self remorse for your apostate acts. I am a Global Citizen miles away from sweet home yet realistically too difficulty to be dressed some illegal acts by overzealous laymen out of your pervasively controlled mind type. I have just seen one article saying I must be a so called shushushu because in all my contributions, I have never vilified GRZ but maintained a path of silent Diplomacy. That is too childish; Smart debaters think over issues at hand and never believe in solving a problem by demonizing a person first before reaching out for a mutually lasting solution. Certainly, the misgivings of smart and self collected people always take defined routes while the weak and their Group think umbrage typical of truants resort to insults and baseless umbrage. To be dressed as a shushushu for my principles does not bother or endanger me. FYI, I personally have a lot of respect for those patriotic men and women of valor for their selflessness, steadfastness and strict discipline found on unwavering national loyalty. Had it not been for age, I could even have joined them in view of my absolutely outstanding background very cheap to verify. In summary, be advised that the powers for self destruction are all in our respective hands as individuals. Pursue your ways and you will squarely yield the fruits of that route. Hope to see you along the threads here intellectually engaged in national based issues than helpless diatribes. Peace

  10. #11 iwe ci koswe, bushe kwena waliba normal? I think you have loose nuts in your head, you dunderhead. The issue is over but to you it seems like a zero vector since you have been hiding in a wet hole scared of unknown. WE are now looking forward to contribute positively and debate intelligently and not the way you’re trying to stir up a fight. Are you from normal pipo? No wonder niwe koswe. If you have issues koswe, don’t hastate to bring them over, that is if you are really a man and not koswe. I have not seen you before but I could tell that you have a face of kakoswe in a wet hole. Now tell me what’s troubling you ever since you went in hiding? Koswe, we human beings know how to forgive and forget and carry on as brothers and sisters on daily life and share the spirit ya buntu. Plz read what Pragmatist has written before the bells toll in your melted cheese brain that you are a misfit in zed but would suit well in Darfur. Young man, that is if you’re really a human being, GROW UP and let the bygones be bygones. (plz don’t disturb my busnz in quex2)

  11. #15 Pragmatist

    I have tenuous truth on how KK was linked to the death of William Chipango, the man who once staged a protest over the Mainza Chona Commission of 1972 by boarding a train from L/stone to Lusaka with his supporters. Would you mind to shade some light on this type? The second question is on Mudia Sikatana in of the books I read was labelled as a traitor over the Shamwana coup plot. And it’s alleged Brig Gen Miyanda once told him that he had forgiven him but he will never forget. Would you mind to shade some light on it plz. Coz every time I see Mudia Sikatana, I only see a traitor

  12. #15 Ba Joze, I think there is something wrong with you. Why ask #15 Pragmatist such kind of questions? You should have left them open. There is nothing your man knows apart from knowing that the noun comes first before a verb and that the adjective in a sentence has to fall somewhere. He is the one who posted that unreadable message. Why did he not react there and then? He comes to react after days upon thinking about it on how he can deceive us. I know the issues you have asked for very well. But since you asked your man of english (Man Dibango Pragmatist)I will not give you the details. I want you Joze to learn that knowing how to put one word after another is no justification for knowledge. Come back again to all of us then we will be in a position to let you know. Wamvera mubemba wakanthu iwe Joze? Don’t be blown by the wind. Stick to your principles.If I was to write something about my field here, you will run away from Pragmatist and side with me. Why? Ndiwe ofunta olo bwanji?

  13. #19 Gaulani

    Just answer my questions mudala Gaulani.Plz do not use arabic when answering. Gaulani, I thought Pragmatist being the oldest man on the blog would be in pisition of answering my questions. I will appreciate your response.

  14. #19 Gaulani

    Just answer my questions mudala Gaulani.Plz do not use arabic when answering. Gaulani, I thought Pragmatist being the oldest man on the blog and once the best friend of alias chipimo/kafumokache would be in position of answering my questions. But from the look of things, I think he is blank or smoking dobo and soon he will start writing in tongues. Mukaamba Gaulani, I will appreciate your answers.

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