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Forewarned is forearmed

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SUCCESS and victory are never a day’s event, but a result of long-term planning.
When we enter into a new phase in life, we do so with high expectations, hopes and dreams.
And these high expectations and dreams are backed by planning; a key aspect in everything we do in life.
This week we have heard from the Warriors coach Kalisto Pasuwa that our poor show at the just ended African Cup of Nations Finals (AFCON) tournament in Gabon was due to shoddy preparations.
That is the truth.
The Warriors did not have the best of preparations for the tournament.
To have expected them to do well at the tournament was not realistic.
Poor planning cannot achieve positive results.
Proper planning prevents poor performance it has been said.
Currently Government is implementing various measures to ensure the economy gets back on its foot.
And one of the programmes it has implemented to ensure food security and alleviate suffering is the Command Agriculture Programme.
This programme holds so much promise.
It is the answer to many of our problems.
Food security will be achieved, we might even begin to export grain.
But all these possibilities presented by this noble programme hinge on that popular saying ‘ramangwana rirongere’.
This is the import of my note this week.
When dams began bursting as a result of the heavy rains that have hit the country I was taken aback.
I asked myself many questions, but the one that burdened my mind was; did we not see it coming?
We were told months before the onset of the rains that we were going to get normal-to-above normal rains and surely we should have refurbished our dams and catchment areas so that we would not lose the water.
Especially as we made the decision that as a nation we are embarking on a massive irrigation programme.
Now how do we execute that noble programme when we can’t even plan for our dams’ carrying capacity?
How do we harvest water when we can’t repair our dams?
My heart bleeds when I hear that all that water we have been blessed with by the heavens is finding its way out of the country because of burst dams.
This is not even about resources because I don’t think rehabilitating dams which carry water that saves lives is an expensive exercise.
I hope we have learnt our lesson and in the future we shall not be found wanting.
We are the masters of our destiny.
And all the success that awaits us is dependent on the plans we craft and execute today.
And in time we have just been informed that the abundant healthy maize crop in the fields across the country, the Command Agriculture maize, may not be accommodated in our silos which are said to be in dire need of rehabilitation!
The projections of a bumper harvest were made a long time ago.
It will not be just sad but catastrophic to get to harvesting period only to be told that the silos cannot accommodate the bumper harvest.
The Grain Marketing Board (GMB) must forthwith work round the clock, literally, to ensure that the silos will be ready to receive the 2016/17 season grain .
Surely the GMB should have known the grain from the Command Agriculture Programme would find its way to the grain board.
The good thing is that we can still save the situation.
Forewarned is forearmed.

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