IN the wake of the erratic rainfall and uncertainty surrounding the rainy season, farmers should hold on to last season’s harvest, Chipangali Member of Parliament, Andrew Lubusha has advised
Mr Lubusha said farmers should not even think of selling their maize because the future was not certain in terms of the 2021/22 farming season as well as the country’s food security status.
He sympathised with the farmers who had been engulfed with anxiety due to the dry spell which had persisted into December without any sufficient rainfall to guarantee safe planting.
Mr Lubusha said this when he visited some fields in Chipangali constituency to check on the extent of damage on crops due to lack of rain.
“Little is known by now how the yield of next year shall be. Because we value the input of farmers, we have since advised them not to sell their farm produce of last season as a way of cushioning the looming hunger next year. We believe that God won’t completely leave our people in adverse hunger” he said.
Mr Lubusha warned that there could be looming hunger, which he said called for farmers to guard the last harvest jealously.
He asked the country to join in prayers against drought in the country and for God to heal “our land.”
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