Govt will not increase number of FISP beneficiaries, Wina explains

VICE-PRESIDENT Inonge Wina has revealed that government has no intentions of increasing the number of beneficiaries on the Farmer Input Support Programme (FISP), as it would be undergoing review to ascertain its prudence. And Vice-President Wina says the PF is proud of the elections it carried during its general conference as there was nothing sinister about the manner members of the Central Committee were ‘elected’. During her question and answer session in Parliament, Friday, Vice-President Wina announced that government would maintain the current one million beneficiaries for the forth-coming farming season. She was responding to Chimwemwe UPND member of parliament Elias Mwila who wanted to find out whether government would increase FISP beneficiaries, given the rising number of women led…...