Fisaka Cooperative Society in Kawambwa District in Luapula Province has asked government to urgently start distributing inputs to farmers in the area.
Co-operative chairperson, Phillimon Chilufya, says government should commence the distribution of agricultural inputs to farmers because the rainy season has already started.
Mr. Chilufya was speaking in an interview with ZANIS in Kawambwa over the weekebd.
He, however, noted that government, through Nyiombo Investments, only delivered more bags of urea fertilizer and very few bags of basal dressing.
Mr. Chilufya said there is need for the government to speed up the distribution of basal fertilizer because some farmers have already started planting seeds.
“It started raining heavily in the area two weeks ago and some farmers have started planting but D. compound is not enough compared to urea that has been brought to the area in large numbers,” complained Mr. Chilufya.
And Mr. Chilufya has urge government not to eliminate farmers from the Fertilizer Support Programm (FSP) because there are no agents in Kawambwa who have the commodity for sale.
He said if prominent farmers are removed from the programme, they would have nowhere to buy inputs adding that this will affect maize production in the district this farming season.
Mr. Chilufya further said the inputs will be expensive by outside businessmen due to transport costs, hence the need for the government not to eliminate farmers from the FSP.
However, Acting District Agriculture Coordinator (DACO), Ng’onga Musonda, said government has not yet issued instrutions to start distributing inputs to farmers in the area.
Mr. Musonda appealed to farmers not to panic, saying his office will start distributing the inputs soon.
Meanwhile, Mr. Ng’onga has revealed that Kawambwa District has received 7,980 x 50 kg bags of urea, 1,800 x 50 kg of D. Compound and 3,196 x 10 kg bags of maize seeds.
ZANIS/PS/CMM/EB.
why do we have to wait for the rains to drop before we can start fertiliser distribution programmes especially in rural areas.Lets give the farmers this fertiliser way before the on set of ama rains then they too can plan properly
But what are they still waiting for? is it because RB lost in Luapula?
Soon the roads will be impasseable and fert will reach the farmers.
Is there any meanful farming in luapula?
Hey Baby C,
i think i like u.Pliz dont take offence i jst feel that way.
Poor planing,we are in rainy and fertilizer has not yet being distributed and next thing will hear is we have been unable to distribute fertilizer the roads are impasseable.
There goes pressure for Bwezani… azafa na stroke!
# 5 u are right
Our govt lacks proper planning in all walks of life. They are used to doing things in a free style way..
Liar Nyama soya no fertilizer for the people not even villagers that put you in office have fertilizer shame on the toad face
Nyama soya is fast asleep! How do run the affairs of a country when you are dozing all the time? Price of Zambia’s staple food – maize meal has sky-rocketed to K75,000 in kabwe. Back to UNIP era!
ask RB to reduce the price of mealie mael not fert.
I dont understand some you blaming RB.
We Zambians we spoil our own democracies, governance and institutions.
How do we allocate so much power to one man, honestly even when ther there are instrutions in place?
We want the president to reduce mealie meal, distribute firtilizer, pay retirees, employee more teachers, nurses, clean the city, build drainages etc, when we have respective institutions in place.
When are we going to to learn to hold appropriate authorities accountable? We think that for everything we need to hold the president accountable. Street lights have stopped functioning, the president must attend to them? that is why this man appealed to govt, he knows that it’s not RB.
#4 hmmmmmmm like me. Well i can only say thanx
Subsidies have made village chickens very lazy…… Tax payers money goes to support this nobble cause and yet these rural guys do not even support us when it comes to voting…….they forgett that it is our moneys that counts in the fert support pgm……we need to bild capacities in the villages and not give subsidies….this practice makes these persons very lazy and and many times are late for planting because there plans are based on subsidies which in the end they dont get or receive little of it
You mean nanomba tabalacita distribute ama inputs to farmers,koma pa Zed tulangala nifintu ayini.Come on Ben Kapita start distributing the farm inputs,some us are paying our school fees here using the money from farming back home.We are not like your children who are paid for by the Goverment.Guys mulekwatako uluse Mwalitutana amasambililo mututane na Farming Zo-ona guys yashani iyo!Naleka nine Zedian mu calo cabene.
Yah yesterday I told off my uncle in the village (Eastern Province)to go to hell. he wanted money for fertilizer and other things. he is the same one that told me chawama a banda a Wina.. So I have told him to get the money from Nyama Soya. Not from me. I live on the Copperbelt and I voted for Sata. If all of us can act same way the rulral voters will change.The rural voters spoilt things for Zambia. Lets riot. Thats the language UNIP incanation through RB understands
#15 Engine. you shouldn’t have. The best you could have done was to advise him not to make the same mistake in 2011.c’m on man, send some money for your precious uncle and pump some sense into his head on the value of changing this goverment.
#1,3and 7 Thanx guys the issue is that as a country our planning is poor. How can you say you will only buy mealie meal when your wife wants to cook nshima tomorrow???? fertilizer is a commodity that should be in stock all the time. After all there farmers who grow crops using irrigation systems. I’m jsut thinking, suppose we have no rains, this would mean no fertilizer production and distribution in the country.
Ba Banda, yes he has to be blamed somehow. He needs to sit his cabinet/ministers and look at a number of issues, otherwise if he expects his ministers to move things he will fail. After all we know some of the so-called minsiters of certain ministries are miss fits.
Now that the political drama is almost done…apart from Zim circus, most Zed bloggers have lost the apetite! Undestandly so…we like contravesies…intriges….fear…suprises… the list is endless! This D-compound issue has been on the net for a while… yet I’m number 17!!!
Guys just want to talk…but when it comes to real work…we develop cold feet.
I thank you guys from 1 – 17 including myself for talikng about very crucial and vital issues like farming…
To the ‘on-lookers’ I challenge you to come up with ideas how we can ensure food security come next year and years after.
Is this the same fertilizer iya 50,000 pin nga ya fifite pin tayakamoneke bufi alemibepa fye nyama soya mwe bantu bukeni. It is your vite so keep on suffering. Till u die.
Beta to teach the rural pipo th hard way…guys dnt be suprisd wth th late distribution of inputs,me i hear ths yr in yr out,i gues thts th normal way of doin things,nowonda a smal country lyk malawi cn produce more than us..
calo cesu
Today I have difficulties with the internet hence my absence on these important issues, however, I am back I hope it won’t give up on the way…
Well, why the two conflicting sentiments, the other man says they should sent and the other one is confirming receipt i mwee batuubulu mwilapena tell us what is really happening those ends.
baby c
lik yo humour @15. This lack of proper planning is seriously killing us and i guess there is more to come.Lets brace our selves for more of this.Anyway what do u expect from some one who never thot hez gone b at the helm of this nation’s affairs.Lets vote wisely nxt tym.VOTE HH.
23. Man kunde,
not ifwoo are you sure you like that or the other, looking at how you have openly flaunted your feeling towards one Baby C… FYI wise voting does not include HH, the two don’t mix…its a water and oil kind of a thing…DIG?!
Some bloggers that are intereted in politics, its high time you thought of coming out of your confort zone and take part in the development of our nation.
My point is if a lot of educated persons from all fields took part in politics, our country could develop. These pipo from diffrent fields with different skills and experience are an asset to our country. The problems we are facing are as a result of electing unskilled pipo to high positions. WE HAVE TO COME UP WITH A GOOD PLAN. I dont think I can be a politician, this for these interested pls start acting
Sorry I meant “this is for those in….
#24 am only frank, if u don,t like it sorry but thats the way i feel. As for HH, even u,u know it that hez best man for z atleast for now.
Very worrying bcoz the rains are arleady here. If only the Govt could expedite the distribution of ferts this time around. Here in Chibombo farmers are already planting but there seem to be no sign of ferts coming soon. Let the ministry responsible chek it out.
#3 for your information Kawambwa district grows a lot of maize, no to talk of other areas. And if you lived in urban areas, you should have seen trucks of cassava from there feeding cb and other areas with the famous cassava snack.
#15 and #16
I live in Eastern province and i have a nephew at Chingola school of ACC on the copperbelt should i tell him to go to hell for his school fees just because he voted for Sata against my advise to Vote for RB. we in the Rural Areas gave you mwanawasa whom you are posthumersly heroe worshiping and now we have given you Bwezani. We in the Rural will only vote fopr educated people.Sata shopuld go to night school first complete grade & move on to Grade 9 pass the exam and at least get a grade 12 certificate then we will vote for him.
Spectator sorry man, I was for Pf but i ve shifted camp. 3-0 is too much. Am for HH now, young, intelligent and dynamic.Advise your old man to start grooming someone now who will take over from him. He needs to step down.
31.Baby C
If u look at it broadly..HH wil soon hit 3-0 aswel,and worse stil wth hs ideal age,he may end up pa 5-0..wat we realy nid is a pact btwn these two major political parties,hear smthn is in the pipeline as of yestday
Baby C worry not for some us our Allegiance is not to an individual it is to the system, if PF adopts someone young we are going to support him, until such a time for now it is sata in the lead!
Gridlock, I am telling you man if this “young Presidential hopeful” Does not realize the power and wisdom in rallying behind elderly and experienced men, will hit 10 – 0 without setting foot in plot1 as PRESIDENT!!!
Spectator!chachine mwana…his number of votes keep on reducin wth every election…and the situation dosent favor hm anyway..they lack strategy..
It’s time PF had a convention,how do u suport a party that has no intra democracy in a democratic nation?it doen’t make a bit of sense at all.Spectator it’s never too late to join the likes of Baby C. VIVA HH.
Baby C we accept u with both hands,congrats.
36.Man kunde.
Easy,the convention wil take place very soon,tho it dosent calminate into votes,PF continues to grow beta than otha opposition parties in zed because pipo are in line wth its ideals and principals..cum 2011,wth o wthot Sata,PF wil be stronga.
#36, a pipe dream indeed!!! You see African politics are tricky, do not be cheated just because you have seen a young and seemingly energetic Obama elected and you quickly assume HH will do the same, Paatali…as long as he remains proud and puffed up because of his money he will remain # 3 for life maybe even # 10 looking at multipartism with its plural ideals…Bwafya…let him join forces someone experienced before he becomes Fetid and obsolete…
Those advocating a pact between Sata and HH are polically unimformed.If HH becomes SATAs Vip S/province will go MMD if Sata becomes Vip northern and Luapula will go MMD and the CB suport will go down. MMD dislodged KK in 1991 because they had a team from all provinces before they chose a leader. we had Chiluba, Kavindele , arthur Wina, Christon Tembo, Nawakwi name them. we gained support from all provinces before we chose a leader. But you guys want to choose a leader first and then look for National support. It cant WORK.VIVA MMD 2030 Vision
39.Engines
U cnt c the pact workin,kaili ur MMD,and im sure the thot of ths pact sends shivers..the pact wil go through,and im sure ur insinuations on reactions frm the provinces wont be,MMD has bn rejectd,and pipo in the provinces u mentiond cnt vote 4 it,no mata wat.
#40 u r rt.
Engines!!
The problem with you guys ngati ba kudyesani moni muma sabaila maningi!!!I am telling the truth a pact will work better for the opposition…
#40, 41 and 42
You guys, do you know why PF lost in western when Sata formed a pact with Saki yet when Saki formed a pact with MMD he delivered western by a landslide and even included livingstone.ask yourself why Livingstone dint go to PF with saki second to sata in 2006. there are a lot of things at play in politics its not just HH moving to PF and the entire S/Province goes or Sata Moving to UPND and the whole Luapula and northern goes. its not as simple as it looks
UNZA what are you doing, mealie meal K75,000. remember in the Kaunda erra when govt raised the price of mealie meal. you made them dance. do it again, ba pusa maningi bantu aaba.
43 Engines
Western province has always bn MMD as far i remember..so the issue of saki holds litle wota i tink,he is a lost politician who had potential bt nt anymo..if u look at upnd,it has mps in sourthern,western and nthwestern,and it has had sum in lsk..PF on the otha hand has mps in nothern,luapula,C/belt and Lusaka..tht tels u alot abt the capacity of the pact,and hw much MMD has bn rejectd
#42
Infact we in MMD really wanted a pact between HH and Sata because we wanted to Grab S/Province which has a population 3* that of luapula from HH and win by landslide. unfortunately KK (The Godfather ) did not succeed in executing that mission and HH ended up splitting our Vote in S/province. Just wait and see MMD will always keep the Ball in your court!!! Rigging doesnt exist its only strategy that works, by the way who is the election adviser to Sata or HH? is it Chipantepante
#43
u may b rt but wht we r saying is that votes amassed would better than when u r not in a pact,hope u see sense out of this.
#46
W/P in recent past has bn 4 upnd and however inpopular pact HH can found himself in he can stil get 3/4 of the votes.
This MMD cadre is just scared that MMD wud be disloged if a pact went through that is why he is coming up with these unfounded theories.Tell u wat,some people wud move to MMD becoz of the pact and others wud move from MMD to join the Opposition such that the overral position wud be in favour of the opposition.Even rigging wud be difficult 4 VJ! I can tell u that NO OPPOSITION party b it PF or UPND can win an election in the 15years without joining forces.Mark my words not even Sata.
can someone define rigging, because certain strategies surmount to rigging, rigging is not just playing around with figures.
Bvuto pa zed. If RB ordered the distribution of fertilizer b4 30 October, the opposition political parties were going to cry foul ati vote buying
#36 – Amen my dear
#45 gridlock
Why are you saying that MMD has been rejected when it has just won the elections. As for Saki, in 2001 he delivered western to UPND by landslides, then in 2006 he tried it for Sata but the people refused, Then this time around he deliverd it MMD, even included Livingston which is a UPND strong hold interms of the presidential ticket. SATA and HH must first mobilise a team of Zambians, seek national support and then choose a leader at the end.other than Lubinda and scot who else is not from Nothern or Luapula in PF same aplies to UPND. we need a national charecter in the opposition not two men pacts
But Ka spectator Kakamba. unfortunately he posts nonsense
“UPND denies media reports
The UPND has dispelled media reports suggesting that the party is pondering on an electoral pact with the Patriotic Front (PF).Party Secretary General, Tiens Kahenya, said in a statement to ZNBC that his party is not contemplating entering into a pact with any political party.Mr. Kkahenya said UPND is currently conducting a post mortem of the last presidential election.He said the party is also focusing on the 2011 tripartite elections.Mr. Kahenya however, said his party will always remain committed to genuine proposals for alliances.” Source: w w w . z nbc . c o . z m / media / news / viewnews . c g i ? c a t e go r y = 8 & i d = 1226342342
“And Mr. Kahenya has advised the Patriotic Front to stop commenting on the failed pact between the two parties.He was reacting to sentiments by PF Publicity and Information Secretary, Given Lubinda over the failed pact before the just ended elections.And UPND Secretary for Information and Publicity, Charles Kakoma has advised Mr. Lubinda to be mindful of what he says about other parties.He maintains that Mr. Sata walked out of the pact meeting, because he believed he had confidence that he would win the election.” Source: w w w . muvitv . com /news / Nov2008 / 10thpnews1 . h t m l
The UPND men are speaking now. Zambians, we are not poor thus YES we all can prove this with president HH.
gentlepeople, mining-related companies have started laying off people. international recession, falling copper prices and nyama soya, what a terrible combo!!!
Thats the problem with having quacks in government,now that they have won elections its tiye tiye make yourself rich! BLOODY POLITICIAN
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