Mkushi farmers get farming inputs
By BUUMBA CHIMBULU
MKUSHI 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 the company could continue to supply inputs early.
One of the beneficiaries Janet Phiri said she was happy that she collected the inputs before the rains.
“It is good that the inputs were in Mkushi before it started raining. All beneficiaries that I live with, collected Compound D in good time. We really appreciate what Nyimba is doing,” she said.
Ms Phiri said as a result of the timely delivery, she was confident that she would be able to record a bumper harvest.
District Agricultural Coordinator (DACO) Reuben Kabiti, said the farmers started collecting inputs on 26 October and they have since collected all Compound D fertiliser.
He said the district has 17,094 beneficiaries under the Farmer Input Support Programme (FISP), who have since collected all the Compound D fertiliser.
Mr Mulendema told the District Commissioner that Nyimba Investments was ready to work with the New Dawn administration.
Mr Mulendema said Nyimba was ready to suit the policies of the new government and pledged the company’s commitments of ensuring that inputs were in the areas early.
“We pledge total commitment to working with the government of the day and we are willing to fit into the New Dawn policies. Our strength is that we deliver the inputs on time,’’ he said.
