By BUUMBA CHIMBULUCOPPERBELT will record a bumper harvest following the early distribution of farming inputs in all districts, provincial agriculture coordinator, Obvious Kabinda, has predicted.Dr Kabinda expressed excitement that farmers had started accessing fertiliser under the Farmer Input Supply (FISP) for the 2020/21 farming season.The province has 102,452 beneficiaries under FISP.He said this at the weekend when Nyimba Investments officials led by Head-Sales and Marketing Willings Mulendema paid a courtesy call on him.“As you know farmers in the province started making their deposits early and so they have started collecting fertiliser in good time and we hope that by end of October, all of them would have collected. This is an indication that farmers have come to appreciate the programme,” said Dr KabindaKitwe District Agriculture Coordinator, Raphael Munyaule, advised farmers not to sell fertiliser but use it for agricultural purposes.Mr Munyaule said the farmers were adhering to the health guidelines while collecting their fertiliser.And Mr […]
CB POISED FOR BUMPER HARVEST
