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2 Farmers Die in Kalulushi as they Wait For Farming Inputs
Two Farmers of Lufwanyama District on the Copperbelt have died while waiting for Farmers Input Support Program (FISP) inputs in Kalulushi.
One of the deceased, from Fungulwe area in Lufwanyama is said to have been spending nights for over two weeks in Kalulushi where he fell sick and died.
Another farmer also from Lufwanyama died on arrival at a clinic where he was rushed after spending nights in the cold waiting for inputs.
Meanwhile, Farmers from Lufwanyama have been spending nights in the cold in Kalulushi waiting for their inputs under FISP.
The distribution of inputs under the programme has been very erratic in many instances.
One farmer who also remained anonymous suspected some foul play amongst the officers in-charge of distribution as they are reported to be demanding for some money from farmers for them to be given fertilisers.
The farmer have said the whole process is a sham because the officers are believed to be involved in some under-hand methods and have been “selling the fertilisers” to unsuspecting individuals.
Posted by Editor
on January 26, 2014. Filed under LATEST NEWS.
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Bishop
January 26, 2014 at 4:59 pm
Shame
DX
January 26, 2014 at 5:33 pm
why were they spending night in colds you mean they expected inputes to come at night
Aloysious Kofya
January 26, 2014 at 6:21 pm
Please send people to investigate those officials who are selling farming inputs and let the law play its part.
666
January 26, 2014 at 7:33 pm
what type of inputs they were waiting for the two of them all nights? why not others? and i’v never heard of FISP.
yongwe
January 26, 2014 at 9:37 pm
Waiting for inputs that never showed up….they ended up waiting an extra day and so it went on….that is sad indeed!! bwafya pa Africa..!! awe mwandi twafilwa fye fwebene…please Mr President investigate this seriously. I know alot of Guys fro areas like M’kushi who amased wealth at the expense of the poor farmer. Sydney is one of them.
mweni chifumbe
January 26, 2014 at 10:13 pm
so sad..
kwindi kodjo
January 27, 2014 at 6:42 am
Since when did Zambia have cold nights during December/January? So cold that they could be a cause of death?
id!ot!
January 27, 2014 at 2:08 pm
Those men could have been sick already. Only after postmoterm ,will we conclude that the cold was the cause!
icinshikululwa
January 27, 2014 at 3:18 pm
You can die aywhere, anytime by any course. Supply the awated inputs to the family for life to contnul. PAFWA BANTU PASHALA BANTU. MTSRIP.
the sata
January 27, 2014 at 3:21 pm
Paya Farmer (PF) zoona!
Chikwelete
January 27, 2014 at 4:37 pm
But these Panga Family supporters have no simpathy in their hearts. I now understand why they macheted each other in Lusaka. Surely people have died and these are the comments you can make!! Shame on humanity!!!
JOHN CHINENA
January 27, 2014 at 5:03 pm
AWE SURE PF(PAFWAKA)……..KIKIKIKKIKK
Gumugumu
January 27, 2014 at 10:58 pm
PAYA FARMER (PF)U HAVE FAILED FARMERS, MMD WAS EVEN BETTER WITH AGRICULTURE ACTIVITIES. PRESIDENT WHO IS NOT A FARMER.
vincent
January 28, 2014 at 6:51 am
is the law asleep and need to be waken up or poured hot water for it to become awake