Government has registered over one million small scale farmers countrywide in an exercise to modernize the agriculture sector.
Ministry of Agriculture Principal Farm Management Officer, Henry Mugomba, says 1,155,000 small scale farmers were registered in the 2017/2018 farming season.
Mr. Mugomba disclosed that government is targeting to capture two million farmers by 31st January 2019 in the ongoing farmer registration exercise aimed at improving advisory services to farmers using Information Communication Technology (ICT).
ZANIS reports that Mr. Mugomba said this following an orientation program on farmer data capture for officers in the department of agriculture in Ikelenge.
The farmer registration program is being spearheaded by the Zambia Integrated Agriculture Management Information System (ZIAMIS).
Meanwhile Smart Zambia Senior ICT officer, Regina Simbao, says warehouse managers in Ikelenge are now ready to use the ZIAMIS redeeming application to make inputs available to farmers.
Ms. Simbao expressed happiness with the progress made by warehouse managers in the district for tagging a sealing of 2000 farmers in the 2018/2019 farming season.
Not even one single comment for over an hour since this article was posted.
Either people are just tired of such pronouncements which never go anywhere and only lead to certain people getting richer or there is a serious lack of interest in real developmental issues or both of the above.
The Zambian Government is on track with developing the country and maintaining peace and stability. If you are not happy Go and Start your own country…like Biafra or Juda
The Zambian Government is on track with developing the country and maintaining peace and stability. If you are not happy Go and Start your own country…like Biafra or Juda
How can a peasant farmer understand this program when you have lamentably failed to explain here what it is you will do using ICT