Government has announced that it intends to increase the number of beneficiaries of the Farmer Input Support Programme(FISP) from the current 500,000 to over 600,000 farmers for the 2010/2011 farming season.
Acting Agriculture Minister Dora Siliya told parliament that that Government will further increase the number of beneficiaries to over one million farmers by 2011/2012 farming season.
She attributed the bumper harvest the country has recorded this year to the increased number of beneficiaries of the Farmer Input Support Program (FISP) from previously 250,000 to 500,000.
Responding to a question in Parliament today by Mandevu Member of Parliament Jean Kapata who wanted to know whether government is considering increasing the number of bags from the current four bags following an outcry from farmers that it is not enough, Ms Siliya says people are happy with the intervention by government to reduce the number of packs in order to accommodate more people.
Ms Siliya told the House that the reduction in the number of fertilizer bags to four per farmer has enabled more people to access the fertilizer under the FISP.
She says government proved that four bags were enough to produce sufficiently and that beyond that people would be selling the fertilizer.
QFM
Carry on ma ulilesi…
pa nambala wanu I mean ba USILESI :d
who are those muzungus now – they look unsure about being photographed with a thief
is that a wig or a mop! is she thinking with the diguise people wont see her for the crook she is?
What’s that thing in the picture?
3 Red Card Sony Ericsson Phiri, ” who are those muzungus now – they look unsure about being photographed with a thief ”
Exactly my idea. I wonder what the look on their faces is going to be when they realize that Zambia is only receiving a little donor aid because it isn’t taxing it’s mines. All of a sudden, ‘donor aid’ isn’t going to look like ‘charity’ anymore, but it is going to look like the bribe it really is.
Everyday is a bad hair day for this woman. Her dress sense also leave a lot to be desired. Bribes abound as elections approach. Zambians must be cheap! A bag of fertilizer for your vote. Any takers?
Dora, you look like a Sweet-potato farmer, you need more farming inputs to yourself.
How sad the MMD has blind-folded its members to believe they are a working government when in fact these guys spend days and months stealing from the government! My book will soon be released on how the MMD under RB has put up schemes to corruptly enrich the inner circle called the “True Blue”. This is the very inner circle of power and is supported by our own top military personnel surrounding RB. Time has come to tell the truth and free one’s soul forever!
Very good indeed. We need more socialist programs like this one and less anti-poor capitalist programmes dictated by the evil IMF and World Bank. People forget that all the money that government has is actually from the people and the country’s wealth. Everything belongs to the people. That number should be increasing every year.
I think it is about time we had make up artists for our leaders.
A Dora Siliya ni Nyau manje??? The young lady needs a make-up consultant.
She looks like a wax model at Madame Tussaud’s Wax Museum!
Please this is a welcom move we need more inputs.
Those makuwa (bazungus) are the Donors we never invited to help us! Lol
Thanks for more imput so that when we will change the party we will have some thing to feast on next year viva 2011
What is this BITCH or HULE saying now?
This lady is just a HULE, period!!
Is that think Siliya still being photographed? Use black & White camera please
Dora always looking shiny like a snake… embarassing us. buy macpowder
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