"Our traditional ceremony will go as planned on 28 September 2019 despite the continued wrangles" Chief Matebo has said

Chief Mukobela of the ILA speaking people in Namwala district, southern province has revealed that the harvest for the 2016/2017 farming season will be massive despite the earlier reported cases of army worms in some parts of the district.

Chief Mukobela told farmers prime newspaper that the farmers did their best and the results are seeing with good growth of the crops in the district.

However, he said some farmers did not receive the farm inputs on time but that did not make them work hard to see to it that the produce for yields in the 2016/2017 farming season.

‘’some farmers failed to pay for the farm inputs on time, hence they were delayed to receive the inputs on time’’ chief mukobela said.

Meanwhile chief mukobela has called upon government to provide markets for the farmers before the farmers risk selling their produce to brief case buyers.

He says farmers still relay on government to buy crops such as maize through the food and reserve agency (FRA).

The chief has also advised government to buy maize from farmers at a reasonable price then sale to other countries where the crop is scarce.

‘’this will help to reduce cases of smuggling of maize to other countries as reported in the past’ ’he said.

Chief Mukobela has implored farmers across the country not be misled by brief case buyers that come with other commodities in the exchange of maize.

He says some commodities do not match to the value of maize they exchange with.