Almost P12m more to pay farmers

According to principal public relations officer in the Ministry of Agriculture (MoA), Boikhutso Rabasha, they had to source funds from elsewhere to pay farmers or suppliers who had sold their small stock to them.  The small stock was to be distributed to beneficiaries of the poverty eradication programme.

Rabasha has acknowledged that there have been delayed payments for small stock farmers who sold their livestock to government from as far back as November last year.  This was due to a limited budget, she said.