Wed, 03 Jan 2018 12:25:26 +0000 By AARON CHIYANZO ZAMBIAN farmers should stop being over reliant on inputs from government if they are to maintain a sustainable production throughout the year, Small Scale Farmers for Development Agency (SAFADA) executive director, Boyd Moobwe has advised. And Mr Moobwe warned that the country risked facing severe food shortages in future if some of the calamities that had befallen the agriculture sector were not quickly rectified. He observed that farmers in Zambia had become too dependent on government support and that now could not stand on their own. The executive director told the Daily Nation that government was only supposed to supplement the efforts made by farmers not giving them everything. Mr Moobwe said that farmers get engulfed with a lazier- faire attitude when they have to wait for handouts from government. He charged that farmers should stop being over reliant on inputs from government if they were […]
