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Nkeyema District Commissioner, Maliande Lipoba says the area has received the first batch of 390 metric tonnes of D-Compound fertilizer under the Farmer Input Support Programme(FISP) for the 2021/2022 farming season. Mr Lipoba reiterated government’s commitment of ensuring that farmers in the district are empowered through FISP in order to create job opportunities for the locals in the district. “It is anticipated that more farmers will be engaged on this FISP programme considering the number of registered farmers which is now at over 16, 000 in the district,” Mr Lipoba said. Mr Lipoba ...
WFP Zambia Country Brief, February 2021 Format US$ 1.7 million cash-based transfers made US$ 279,845 six-month (April – September 2021) net funding requirements 320,463 people assisted in FEBRUARY 2021 Operational Updates In February, WFP assisted 320,463 people, including 15,820 refugees from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, with food and cash assistance, 213,245 vulnerable urban people under the COVID-19 cash assistance programme, 18,628 people through nutrition improvement interventions and 59,643 people through smallholder support activities. The remaining 11,204 people were reache...
Choma District Agriculture Coordinator (DACO) Robert Tembo has revealed that out of 25,364 farmers earmarked to receive farming inputs under the Farmer Input Support Programme (FISP) for the 2020/2021 farming season, only 144 have not accessed the inputs. Mr. Tembo has since called upon the remaining farmers to ensure that they visit their agro-dealers as soon as possible because inputs are available. “These farmers are at liberty at any time to access these goods, but we will be very happy if they get these inputs as soon as possible,” he said. He told ZANIS in Choma that it was the desi...
Over 98 percent of farmers under the Farmer Input Support Programme (FISP) have collected their inputs. Agriculture Minister Michael Katambo says FISP inputs for the current farming season were delivered early, and that the response from farmers has also been encouraging. Mr. Katambo says as of 18th December 2020, over 1 million farmers had deposited the required 400 Kwacha contribution towards the programme, representing a 100 per cent achievement. He said this at his office in Lusaka during a press briefing on the outlook of the 2020/2021 agricultural season, with emphasis on the FISP, Army...