Dear Editor,PRESIDENT Edgar Lungu last month assured farmers that the Patriotic Front (PF) government through the stakeholders will distribute the farming inputs such as seeds and fertiliser to all provinces before the onset of the 2021/2022 farming season. He made the assurance at Malashi village in Mpika during the national agriculture field day.It is a well known fact that Zambia has placed agriculture at the centre stage of the country’s economy besides manufacturing, mining and tourism.President Lungu promised farmers that he would engage the Food Reserve Agency (FRA) to implore it to put a higher crop marketing price than that of last farming season despite the country having a free market economy where the price of goods and is determined by the forces of demand and supply.This clearly demonstrates government commitment to improving the welfare of the farmers by putting more money in their pockets.President Lungu also assured the farmers that FRA would this year […]
LUNGU’S ASSURANCE FOR EARLY DISTRIBUTION OF FARM INPUTS WELCOME
