Chitambo set for bumper harvest

BUUMBA CHIMBULU writes @SunZambian GOVERNMENT has predicted that Chitambo district in Central province will record a bumper harvest owing to the timely delivery of inputs. District Commissioner (DC), Jeliaty Ntembwa, predicted that soon agriculture would become the country’s mainstay of the country’s economy. Mr Ntembwe said this yesterday when Nyimba Investments Head-Sales and Marketing Willings Mulendema paid a courtesy call on him “As government I wish to commend management of Nyimba Investment for the timely delivery of inputs. The desire of the President has been that farming inputs should be delivered on time and that is what you as Nyimba have done in the 2020/21 farming season,” he said. Mr Ntembwa commended Nyimba Investment for delivering inputs for the 2020/21 farming season early. He said the company was working in line with the Government’s policy of revitalising the agriculture sector. He said each time a private company like Nyimba was engaged to supply inputs, it was important that they delivered on time. That way, he said, they would be helping the government achieve its desire of retaining agriculture the country’s main economic stay. “Each time you are given an assignment make sure that you deliver 100 per cent of the requirement. Because of what you did, our farmers are now smiling as they are confident that they would record a bumper harvest,” he said. Mr Mulendema said Nyimba has now started procuring the inputs for the 2021/22 farming season and was therefore optimistic that even in the coming season the company would be able to complete the delivery of inputs early. “We have already started procuring for the next season and we are sure that by May next year we should have completed delivering for the entire e nation,” he And Chitambo District Agricultural Coordinator (DACO) Katumwa Mutandi said that Chitambo completed receiving the entire inputs on October 10. As a result, he said that the farmers were able to get the commodities on time ahead of the planting period. He said that with the good rainfall that the area anticipates to receive this season, Chitambo would be able to record a bumper harvest. “With the good rainfall pattern we can promise the nation that we will have a good harvest this season. We are really thankful to President Lungu for ensuring that commodity companies deliver the inputs early,” he said.