V ice President George Kunda has challenged Southern Province to reclaim its position as the food basket of Zambia.
Mr. Kunda noted that there had been delays in the distribution of farming inputs but that government was accelerating the process to ensure that inputs reach all farmers in time.
Mr. Kunda also observed that with proper management of livestock, the province could export beef adding that this was the reason why government was attending to cattle diseases in the province.
The Vice-President said this in Livingstone on Monday when he featured on a Radio Programme on Zambezi FM.
Mr. Kunda said the economy was now stable and that prices of copper had gone up making the future of the country’s economy brighter.
He also disclosed that government was prospecting for oil saying this would also contribute greatly to the country’s economy.
And speaking upon arrival at Livingstone International Airport, Mr. Kunda said he had just returned overseas from the just ended Commonwealth Summit and a World Economic Business Forum in London where he had sold the potential of Livingstone as a tourist capital.
He said Livingstone was being upgraded to international standards because the city was a special place in Zambia as far as tourism was concerned.
Meanwhile, Mr. Kunda has said he is aware that the opposition PF/UPND pact is weak in Livingstone.
He alleged that by going into a political part with the PF/UPND pact President Hakainde Hichilema had sold the party to the Patriotic Front and was now one of the deputy Vice-Presidents to Mr. Guy Scott.
The Vice President said he would continue talking about the PF/UPND pact so that the people of Zambia should know what they were dealing with.
He cited some areas where the UPND was weak in Southern Province as Livingstone, Namwala, Mazabuka and Kazungula.
”This so called pact is not as strong as it is portrayed to be. We as MMD have structures, we have a President and we have one party and this is the difference with these other political parties,” he said
ZANIS
Mr Kunda just shut up!! You good for nothing red lipped vimper!!! You have no idea of what you are saying
Ba Kunda, don’t you have anything better to talk about that concerns national development?
Ba George Kunda, tekupenafye uku? KAYA.
Reclaim? What happened, how did Southern Province lose that status. Why has farming gone down in S.Province? Is it because of cattle diseases, agricultural input etc? Or have the farmers died? What made the province a grain basket then and not now? Let’s discuss teh issues. Otherwise rhetoric doesnt do anything. It’s cheap. There must be real agric issues to sort out in Southern province, may be the whole country. From what I have read, Zambia’s agricultural production has going down significantly over the past 6 years.