Northern Province Patriotic Front (PF) chairperson Peter Mwansa says the region is, this year not expected to produce bumper harvest as it has in the past years because of poor and late distribution of fertilizer by suppliers.
ZANIS reports Mr. Mwansa to have said this in an interview in Luwingu District, today.
He added that many farmers in the region have complained of not having received both basal dressing and top dressing fertilizer saying the situation which will affect maize production.
He said the patriotic front government arranged with the suppliers to make the commodity readily available to farmers countrywide but delayed the distribution of fertilizer causing many farmers to panic.
Mr. Mwansa observed that late delivery of fertilizer will adversely affect the production of maize this year in all the nine districts in the Northern Province.
“This is not the right time for Nyiombo investment to start bring basal dressing fertilizers to farmers because maize have already started tussling in same cases. We as a party we are doubting if will have bumper harvest this year,” he said.
Mr. Mwansa said the region had also face other challenges in the agriculture sector where arm worms destroyed several hectares of maize fields and peasant farmers were asked to re-plant maize in their fields.
He after re-planting their fields’ fertilizer has not been made available to them, the situation which has angered many of them.
Mr. Mwansa said the party officials in Luwingu district also complained to Northern Province minister Gerry Chanda that the delay in the fertilizer distribution is also affecting the organization of the party on the grass root level because peasant because the peasant farmers did not expect this to happen.
He said the farmers expected that Nyiombo investment will improve in delivering of fertilizers distribution under the ruling patriotic front but surprisingly the situation has worsened.
The provincial chairperson, however, said the party in the region is still very strong despite of monkey tricks by some opposition parties conniving with fertilizers suppliers to delay the distribution farm inputs in order to see people to rise against the government.
He said two ward councilors from united party for nation development and Movement for multiparty democracy MMD in Nsama the newly created district have resigned to join the ruling PF.
There is a number of ward councilors wanting to defect from their opposition parties to join the ruling government in order for their respective wards achieve the minimum development.
The provincial chairperson has accompanied Northern Province minister Gerry Chanda who is on familiarization tour in Luwingu district in the province.
ZANIS
This is how things start going wrong… those who can´t see and think, its a pity.
President Sata on his last day of campains in Shimumbi, Luwingu promised to give people in the district 15 bags of fertilser free and 15 on loan, where are they? Even late delivery could be okey if the 30 bags were delivered, but 90 days has passed. We donchi know what next. Twali mwebele!!!! Dont complain. Fyakuifwaila.
There’s no money for situpidi things like Fertiliser nefyashala! And using the power vested in me I order the FRA to advise my peasants to start selling maize at the council markets and the roads and streets throughout the country. My government will no get involved in agriculture. We have far more serious issues to deal with. My government will between now and 2016 spend most of our time bribing opposition members of parliament to join PF. This costs money therefore all resources shall be poured into this very impotant national project!
hahah haha shikulu
The illiterancy levels in Zambia are too high. This government doesnt care about zambian’s welfare except majority in parliament through by elections. If Zambians knew what was going on with their government, am sure we could have been talking about a different story. But one can see how duped some of the bloggers post their comments. We have all come to realise that this is a wrong government we put into power, but we shall argue for the sake of it. At end of the day Zambia still remains one of the poorest countries in the world. Keep on voting for people like Lawrence Evans, a form 3 failure, and ask me the same question after 5 years. Why is Zambia doing so Badly?
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