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Sinazongwe UPND Member of Parliament Gift Sialubalo
United Party for National Development (UPND) Sinazongwe Member of Parliament Gift Sialubalo has described the 2017/2018 farmer input distribution exercise through the e-voucher system as a national disaster.
And Mr. Sialubalo says the convention method of distributing farming inputs to farmers was more ideal for farmers in his constituency which is rural compared to the electronic voucher system.
Mr. Sialubalo explains that this because 85 percent of people in Sinazongwe are not connected to the national electricity grid.
He has also bemoaned the reduced number of fertilizer bags farmers are getting which he says will not be enough to cater for their farming activities.
He has told Q-news that looking at the unpredictable prevailing weather pattern there I need for Disaster Management Unit to quickly move in and address the situation.
He adds that DMMU does not need to assess the situation because the weather pattern has already provided to be unfavorable to anticipate a bumper harvest later this year.