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adequate funds to the Grain Marketing Board to enable it to pay farmers well ahead of the agricultural season.
Addressing farmers at the Zinwa Main Camp in Chiredzi North over the weekend, Minister Mnangagwa said the delays had affected farmers who wanted to buy inputs.
“We are worried that farmers struggle to get agricultural inputs due to lack of funds when they are owed huge sums of money by the GMB.
“We put the blame squarely on Finance Minister Biti of the MDC-T who does not release funds to the GMB on time,” he said.
Minister Mnangagwa said President Mugabe was ready to assist farmers get the inputs under the Presidential Input Support Scheme.
“There is concern over lack of adequate support to our farmers from the Finance Ministry, that is why President Mugabe had to intervene personally with the Presidential Input Support Scheme that has seen most rural farmers getting agricultural inputs for free,” he said.
Minister Mnangagwa, however, appealed to Zinwa not to cut off water supplies to villagers in Chiredzi for failing to pay their bills.
Addressing villagers at Sasekani Chilonga High School in Chiredzi South, Minister Mnangagwa urged Zimbabweans to jealously guard their hard won independence using the ballot box to protect the country from neo-colonial aggression.
The Zanu-PF national secretary for legal affairs said Zimbabweans should defend the country’s sovereignty by voting for a party with a history of spearheading the aspirations of the majority.
“Voting is not a painstaking exercise at all, there is no sweat that comes out by going to vote once or twice after every five years just to defend Zimbabwe’s sovereignty,” he said.
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