Government says it is working had to ensure that the remaining bags of rice that have not been collected by Food Reserve Agency (FRA) in Zambezi District of North Western Province are collected.
Agriculture and Livestock Deputy Minister Greyford Monde said collection of the rice grains is currently underway and is likely to be completed soon.
Mr Monde said his ministry is working round the clock to ensure that all the grains are collected and used for the intended purpose before they go to waste.
He said failing to secure crop yields is not only retrogressive to the nation but also a sign of not being grateful to God for the abundance of food production.
North Western Province Minister Dawson Kafwaya recently unveiled a scam were over nine thousand by 50 kilogram bags of rice bought by FRA from farmers in Zambezi were not collected from the area since 2011.
FRA has since commenced the collection of the commodities from Zambezi West constituency to Solwezi District for storage.
Well done Honourable Kafwaya ! The UPND MP who has been there all these years failed to help the people of Zambezi West.The representation was not effective.People of NWP open up your eyes and work with the govt of the day to ensure that you have development.The idea of day dreaming thinking UPND will form govt one day is utopian.
Don’t you know that Kafwaya belongs to UPND?
Please treat our peasant farmers that grow rice like Kings and Queens; encourage them with incentives so as we can diversify our diet, we are too over reliant on this less nutritious maize grain…a nation reliant on one crop is weakness in its self.
The PF Government should consider growing Cannabis on a massive scale for medicinal purposes. With careful planning and engaging quasi Govt departments like OP, Army and/or National service, we could control any misuse of this wonder Drug.
Indeed why do we have to wait for the British or the Chinese for that matter to tell us what to grow, when to grow what and what to do with what we grow? Yet if it were them growing these herbs, we would have been the first country to buy (at great cost) from them.
Come on Zambians don’t let these foreigners tell us about the DANGERS of having a ‘fore-skin’, it was God who created it. If God created it the way he did then, what ‘dangers’ does it cause apart from YOU feeling good? Ulubangula is good for Arthritis, joint pains, Ukupukuta…
We can grow any other crop but certainly not canabis.
Can some one from NWP answer this question……what good do you see in UPND even when you know that they will never form govt in Zambia ?
…Why not mbanje imwe ba Jacob? Problem is you believe in everything Muzungus tell you. Even the English language, you speak, you speak it so well, even better than the English themselves.
Just look at your name, Jacob, is this Zambian? Why don’y you change to something else like ‘mapwetete’ or something like that? Come on Jacob wake up! This is why you cannot even write your own History, you are forever living in denial, the muzungus had to write it for you yet, distorted greatly. Come out of this ‘mental colonisation’, be real….