Agriculture Minister, Indar Weir, has hit back at those questioning the success of the Farmers Empowerment and Enfranchisement Drive or FEED Programme.
The programme, which was started in 2019, aimed to train 2000 farmers over a three year period, and successful participants would be allocated a plot of land.
Mr. Weir says this was however not achieved, because the programme had to be stopped in 2020 as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Minister Weir has also put those people farmers with full time jobs elsewhere on notice, that they could lose the land allocated to them, if they do not begin production within a certain period of time.
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