Mwiimbu urges govt to aid Mubuyu Farms
Mwiimbu urges govt to aid Mubuyu FarmsBy Mwala Kalaluka
Monday February 11, 2008 [16:58]
MONZE UPND member of parliament Jack Mwiimbu has said the livelihood of 24,000 people in Mazabuka will be adversely affected if the government does not stop the possible collapse of Mubuyu Farms. And Mwiimbu has described the recent conditions introduced by the Ministry of Sport, Youth and Child Development for people to access the Youth Development Fund (YDF) as stringent.
Contributing to the debate on the motion on estimates of revenue and expenditure for the year 2008, Mwiimbu said it was the duty of any responsible government to ensure that business that affected the lives of the people was protected.
He said the British government was responsible enough to bail out Northern Rock when they realised that it was going under.
“Twenty-four thousand people in Mazabuka will be affected if this company is allowed to go under,” he said.
He specifically called on the Ministry of Finance and National Planning to see how they were going to intervene in the issue concerning Mubuyu Farm’s receivership.
Mwiimbu said further in his debate that the people of Katuba Constituency, whose member of parliament is finance and national planning deputy minister Jonas Shakafuswa, had suffered long enough because no one spoke on their behalf in Parliament.
“Now, I will speak for them,” Mwiimbu said whilst focusing his gaze on Shakafuswa on the government side of the House.
Mwiimbu also said it was sad that the affliction suffered by the people of Keembe, which is home affairs minister Lt Gen. Ronnie Shikapwasha’s constituency, following floods in the area was not being highlighted.
But Lt Gen. Shikapwasha rose on a point of order and asked if Mwiimbu was in order to ignore the fact that he appeared on television a few days ago to speak for his constituents in view of the flood situation.
Labels: FARMING, MUBUYU FARMS, YDF, YOUTHS
posted by MrK @ 8:46 PM
3 Comments:
Of course 'development' failed in Kenya, because there can be no development without land reform. Until the land is divided among the people, and the individual people and families have security of tenure, wealth like the land, will always be concentrated in the hands of a tiny few, instead of being the bedrock of the economy.
There must be land reform, and there must be security of tenure for ordinary citizens, not former colonial land owners, corporations, foreign investors and politicians.
Having more than enough land to survive is the key to development.
Mubuyu Farms has it's own website:
Mubuyu Farms has it's own website.
http://www.munalicoffee.com/aboutus.htm
Comparative Advantages for Growing Coffee at Mubuyu:
1. The farm is ideal for Coffee production with its extensive resources of water from the large dam , the soil conditions are very fertile and the Coffee growing areas are located close to the dam so pumping costs are low and have the required slopes for drainage. Most of the plantation is grown on an Open Field Hydroponics system that provides every luxury a coffee tree could desire.
2. There is good availability of labour from the four main villages that border the farm. This ensures that selective picking of coffee is carried out that is very rare elsewhere in the coffee world.
3. There are several successful Coffee growers in the Mazabuka area for advice and help. Mr Richard Clowes is acting as a consultant and provides agronomy and technical advice. The Coffee varieties grown are mainly Kenya based SL28 that are typical of medium to sharp acidity and medium body.
4. There is a guaranteed growing market for Zambian Arabica Coffee and it is sold through the Zambia Coffee Growers Association, which is achieving an international reputation for its high quality product.
Sad story that Mubuyu farm is under receivership. Indeed it provides all the economic benefits to a society and country. However, if a company is under receivership, the management is failing and needs an injection of life to rise and remain afloat. But what makes companies fail while others succeed in the same economy and same industry?
Little did i know that Nyati milling was a subsidiary or a related party to Mubuyu farm.
In todays highly challenging economic times only one thing makes a company survive- that one thing is human resource!
I would therefore advice Mubuyu directors to look for a high performing manager in Zambia. They are there, one of them is Bernard Chiwala( at the time i was leaving Zambia he was with Zambian Airways).After all, all companies are the same.
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