The People’s Newspaper
Chief Chimese of the Ushi people in Mansa District of Luapula Province, has called for heightened efforts towards irrigated agriculture in the Province, a region endowed with plenty of water bodies.
UNITED States government has reaffirmed its commitment to support Zambian farmers practicing Smart Farming Practices in the face of the drought that has been declared a disaster, having devastated six of the country’s 10 provinces.
FOOD Reserve Agency Executive Director Mwansa Chametete has appealed to small-scale and commercial farmers to sell their maize to the agency, as doing so will help to improve the national strategic reserves.
GOVERNMENT has launched the growing of winter maize in Itezhi Tezhi District with 287 hectares of land being allocated for the project in the face of the drought which has been declared a disaster, leaving a population of more than two million at risk of famine.
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ZSIC General Insurance acting managing director Sylvia Nguluwe has disclosed that the insurance company is providing agriculture insurance to 256, 696 farmers under the Farmer Input Support Programme for the 2023/2024 farming season.
GOVERNMENT has said the importation of maize from other countries such as Tanzania and Uganda shall only happen after the Food Reserve Agency (FRA) has mopped up all the locally produced grain in an effort to ensure that public money is left to circulate within the local economy.
PRESIDENT Hakainde Hichilema has called for enhanced cooperation between Zambia and Finland in mining and agriculture sectors.
RECENT queues of Zambians lining up for mealie meal in different parts of the country is a confirmation of a looming hunger crisis, which is signifying a critical shortage of the commodity and the maize grain, says Citizens First President, Harry Kalaba.
IT is a shame that Zambians are now dying of hunger because of the lack of vision by the UPND government and President Hakainde Hichilema that is now importing maize from Uganda and Tanzania after raiding the country’s silos and sold the 1.5 million metric tonnes of the grain against the timely and advice from the Patriotic Front (PF), Brian Mundubile has said.
