Mon, 19 Dec 2016 14:11:10 +0000 By Buumba Chimbulu IT is an act of sabotage for Northern Province not to have received the farming inputs under the Farming Inputs Support Programme (FISP) when the region has ideal rainfall conditions, Paramount Chief Chitimukulu has charged. Paramount Chief Chitimukulu said Northern Province had not yet started receiving fertilizer and seed for the current farming season, yet the rains had been on for more than a month. The traditional leader said this on Sunday at the post budget forum in Kasama. “We are compelled to believe that it is an act of sabotage that Northern Province has not received fertilizer and seed under FISP, yet the region has ideal rainfall conditions. Kasama has not received the inputs and yet Northern Province has always received adequate rains,” Paramount Chief Chitimukulu said. Paramount Chief Chitimukulu said the Mpika-Kasama road needed attention as contractors working on the road had abandoned […]
