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Africa-Press<\/a> – Zimbabwe<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>By Anna Chibamu<\/b> – ZANU PF legislator for Magunje has taken Lands Minister Anxious Masuka over the continued abuse and mismanagement of farm inputs distributed to local farmers under government schemes.<\/p>\n

Speaking in parliament this past week, Kashiri urged the minister to provide an audited list of beneficiaries under government\u2019s farming schemes such as Command Agriculture.<\/p>\n

There are suspicions some of the beneficiaries were corrupt middlemen riding on poor monitoring by authorities to siphon funds from the scheme.<\/p>\n

The MP said a lot of fertiliser sourced under the auspices of government\u2019s farm input schemes was being diverted onto the streets for quick money while the rightful beneficiaries suffered.<\/p>\n

The shenanigans, coupled with poor agricultural policies, corruption and other climate mishaps, is linked to perennial poor yields the country has experienced over the recent past years.<\/p>\n

Said Kashiri, \u201cThis has been an illicit exercise that has been going on.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat measures have you put in place to make sure that farmers who get fertiliser are the actual farmers and not middlemen who get fertiliser for onward selling?\u201d<\/p>\n

In his response, Minister Masuka said to curb such abuses, every farmer was now being compelled to sign contract forms for acceptance of inputs and their intended purpose.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have widened supervision of inputs where for Command scheme, selection is done by CBZ bank and Agro Yield who sign the contracts,\u201d said the minister.<\/p>\n

He added that the National Land Inspectorate comprising of security departments has also been activated to minimise input abuse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Zimbabwe. By Anna Chibamu – ZANU PF legislator for Magunje has taken Lands Minister Anxious Masuka over the continued abuse and mismanagement of farm inputs distributed to local farmers under government schemes. 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