Member of Parliament for Mwanza West constituency Joyce Chitsulo on Wednesday, December 18,2024 took to task President Dr Lazarus Chakwera pinning him down that if he is aware that in her constituency farmers are failing to redeem Affordable Inputs Programme (AIP) fertilizer due to national identity cards irregularities.
She also took advantage of the President's appearance in Parliament to answer questions from Members of Parliament in accordance with Section 44(1) of the Constitution.
She asked: Do you know your Excellency that the farm inputs are there but farmers are failing to redeem them because of a simple mistake of the name of the person or the name of the village?
In response, Chakwera said government is aware of of the challenge and that it was being fixed right at the selling point once identifies.
The president further said government is also working with on introducing other technologies to ensure AIP was more efficient.
"That challenge is being fixed once identified so I would urge farmers to visit their nearest selling points to access the inputs, soon the challenges will end once the new technologies are fixed," said Chakwera.