Cargill Cotton pledges to follow guiding principles
By Christopher Miti in Chipata
Tue 18 May 2010, 07:30 CAT
CARGILL Cotton country manager Frans Grey says the company will strictly follow its guiding principles because it does not want to steal from the Zambian government. Speaking when labour deputy minister Simon Kachimba inspected Cargill, Grey said whatever his company was doing in Zambia was properly documented.
“We have very strong guiding principles and whatever we do, in the books we state exactly what we are doing. We don’t want to steal from the Zambian government,” he said.
Grey said last year, Cargill financed 42,000 farmers in the province and that this year the company had financed 48,000 farmers.
He said the company gave farmers inputs on loan among other things.
Grey said his company provided personal protection to workers in the factory.
Grey said Cargill had constructed some classes as a way of ploughing back to the community.
Cargill Cotton human resource manager Erasmus Mtoloki said the company provided wages that were higher than the minimum wage.
Kachimba urged Cargill to ensure that it puts people on contract so that at the end of the day they get gratuity.
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