Monze District Commissioner, Big Mwiinde, has assured farmers who supplied Maize to the Food Reserve Agency (FRA) in the district to be patient as they will be paid soon.
Speaking in an interview with ZANIS, Mr Mwiinde explained that small scale farmers owed money by the agency should not despair as efforts were being made to pay all the farmers who supplied their maize to the FRA in the district during the last marketing season.
“I have received good news that some farmers who supplied maize to FRA will start receiving their money presumably next week and all I can ask our small scale farmers who have not been paid yet to be patient as they will be paid soon,” said Mr Mwiinde.
“Of course we have received a lot of complaints from farmers in the district on the delayed payments for the maize they delivered to FRA but I can assure them that by next week they will start receiving their monies,” he added
The District Commissioner, however, reluctantly admitted that the late payments to farmers would affect proper preparations for crop production during the 2014/2015 farming season.
On the other hand Mr Mwiinde said government was up to the challenge of ensuring that all the farmers under the Farmer Input Support Programme (FISP) received all the farming inputs they needed on time.
He explained that most of the small scale farmers under FISP had already received farming inputs, notably basal dressing fertiliser and maize seed, adding that the district would soon start distributing top dressing fertiliser to all small scale farmers in the district.
“I would say we have delivered all the farming inputs except for top dressing fertiliser which is being delivered to the district as I speak and hopefully next week all farmers will receive top dressing fertiliser,” Mr Mwiinde said.
Meanwhile, Mr Mwiinde said 1,400 x 50 kg bags of top dressing and basal fertiliser has been distributed to vulnerable people in the district under the Food Security Pack (FSP).
Mr Mwiinde said the programme under the tutelage of the Department of Community Development aims at supporting the aged, poor people, orphaned and other vulnerable people in society, adding that the programme has achieved positive results in reducing poverty in the district.
Pay them it their money.
HH put more pressure so that these mediocre PF chaps can do a bit of work! They have been getting free money!
PF …..wow wow wow wow
Men at work
Monze muli buti badala?
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PF carries out crisis management. This is working without having any forward planning. Deal with the issue when it appears. And that is how they run their homes and private lives.
Well everyone is being paid now because of elections coming up. Good they need to be paid their dues but please you want the entire thieving fraternity to flock to Monze and share the labour of the farmers? Just bloody give to them their money period.
They got a loan!
These guys got into office without a plan.
“Apakwambila tabakwete”
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Guess time for planting maize the staple to be able to realize a worthy harvest is now over. It can probably help if Agriculture Extension Services advise on alternative cash crops that farmers can invest in whose time for planting is not yet over
People can be so foolish!!!!! This is simply campaigning strategy, why were these farmers not paid their monies in good time for them to start preparing for this rain season? Wake up people, tomorrow someone will come and say that they buy you this and that and then you agree. Oh please.
pf has managed to de campaign themselves on so many issues which they now jumping from one to the other reinstate nurses at the wrong time others has even died and others are sick late payment of farmers at this hour not all have been paid untimely recoginition of the bemba paramount chief the cheating of reversing of retirement age from 55 to 65 and so many others which our president hh started talking before the death of king cobra. hh leads others follow yes hh leads others follow flight hh 2015 chabe pf zwaaaaaaa
PF President Edgar Lungu summarises issues to the people of Kabwe
”Zambia Railways HQ coming back to Kabwe
Mulungushi Textile has a new owner through private public initiative
We have paid the farmers
We have reinstated the nurses”
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