By Martin Akende in ChipataGovernment will next year conduct an audit on the Farmers Input Support Programme (FISP) to ensure only deserving farmers are on the scheme, President Edgar Lungu has said.And President Edgar Lungu has warned civil servants depriving beneficiaries of FISP that the law will visit them.He said government has noticed that same farmers have perpetually been on FISP thereby depriving other citizens from benefiting from the subsidised inputs.“Going into next year and beyond, we have to audit the farmers input support programme beneficiaries, some of these beneficiaries have been on the programme for 10 years or from inception. Alternatively it is not supposed to be eternity, people are supposed to get into FISP, grow and graduate but what I have seen is different and that was not the intention of this programme,” said Mr Lungu.He said government is looking for ways to increase the number of farmers on the FISP programme.He has […]
FISP AUDIT COMING-LUNGU
