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Work hard, avoid idleness -Lowassa
2007-05-13 09:36:45
By Amri Lugungulo, PST, Kisarawe
Prime Minister, Edward Lowassa, has urged farmers in Coast Region to use fertilizers in their farms in order to yield quality and bumper harvests that would ensure an increase in their income to fight poverty.
Lowassa made the call recently at different places during a one day visit in Kisarawe district.
He said the move would help them to combat poverty which was dominant among the people in the region.
Addressing residents of Kisarawe town, Msimbu and Maneromango villages, the PM said the region was lagging behind in development in the country due to various reasons, including its peasants way of cultivating without the use of fertilizers.
He said people should work hard and avoid idleness.
``Use fertilizers in your farms and work hard to eradicate the extreme poverty in a region from where President Jakaya Kikwete hails,`` he appealed.
Giving examples, the Prime Minister said last year only four out of 357 tons of fertilizers were collected by some peasant for use in their farms and the rest was left unutilized, in spite of its being subsidized by the government.
Lowassa also called on the peasants of Kisarawe to weed their cashewnut farms in order to yield quality products.
He said that the district had 900,000 trees of the cash crop but only 100,000 of them were weeded.
``The CCM manifesto directs people to work hard in order to live good life and those who stay idle should be punished for their laziness,`` he said.
He said the government wants everyone to work as hard as possible in order to get a better living standard for oneself and one`s family.
Meanwhile, the PM commended the residents in the district for contributing towards the construction and completion of new secondary schools and classrooms so as to enable all the pupils who passed the national standard seven examinations last year to be enrolled.
He said they saved their children who would have been loitering and committing offences in the villages if they had missed the opportunity to go to school.
The Premier urged the pupils to use the opportunity properly in order not to let down their parents and the nation at large.
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