Thu, 08 Feb 2018 10:38:05 +0000 By ANDREW MUKOMA THE Indaba Agricultural Policy Research Institute (IAPRI) has predicted that it will be difficult for the country to record a bumper harvest this year. IAPRI executive director Chance Kabaghe said this was because of the prolonged drought, late distribution of supplies, army worms and stalk borers experienced in in some parts of the country. In an interview with the Daily Nation in Livingstone, Mr. Kabaghe said that most parts of the country had been hit by prolonged drought including Lusaka, Western, Southern and parts of Eastern provinces. “We started the Farmer Input Support Programme very late and as we are talking right now, there are farmers who are still queuing for the inputs…the second challenge was the issue of rains. As you know January is a critical month to the farming sector but unfortunately, that is the time we were hit by prolonged droughts in some […]
