Mkushi farmers get farming inputsBy BUUMBA CHIMBULUMKUSHI District Commissioner Jonathan Kapungwe is impressed that 97 percent of the Farmer Input Support Programme (FISP) beneficiaries for the 2021/22 farming season have collected Compound D fertiliser.Mr Kapungwe said he was happy that the farmers collected Compound D before the area started receiving rains.He said this when Nyimba Investments Head-Sales and Marketing WillingsMulendema paid a courtesy call on him.“I am very delighted to receive you to Mkushi today. Just this morning I had personally visited your warehouse and what I found really impressed me. I had found out that 97 per cent of the farmers have collected Compound D fertiliser. This is really impressive,” Mr Kapungwe said.During the 2021/22 farming season, the government contracted Nyimba to supply and deliver 4,464 metric tonnes of Compound D. Nyimba completed the entire delivery for Mkushi by the end of July.Mr Kapungwe said President Hakainde Hichilema and the new Government were determined to make agriculture the country’s main economic driver hence supplying inputs early.He said Nyimba was living by the government’s directive of supplying inputs early. Mr Kapungwe said it was his desire that […]
Mkushi farmers get farming inputs
