Mon, 26 Dec 2016 10:26:20 +0000 By SANDRA MACHIMA GOVERNMENT must revisit Farmer Input Support Programme (FISP) by engaging farmer groups in different localities to identify sus-tainable farmers so that only targeted individuals benefit from the pro-gramme, a small scale farmers’ representative Richard Mulubwa has said. Mr Mulubwa observed that FISP in its current form has incorporated a lot of people who do not qualify to access inputs under the programme such as civil servants and other people who were not vulnerable. He appealed to government to consider revising the programme so that only vulnerable benefitted from the programme, saying the new system should be seen to target only eligible farmers. He said there were a lot of people who should not be on FISP because they did not qualify, because the programme was meant for vulnerable farmers to improve their livelihood, and not people like civil servants and businessmen. He said President Lungu had […]
