Zanu PF has started distributing farming inputs under the Presidential Input Scheme, four months before the start of the summer cropping season, to ensure they reach the beneficiaries on time.

Addressing ZANU-PF supporters at a rally in Bindura on Saturday, President Mnangagwa attributed the early distribution of inputs done a few weeks before elections to hard work by his Government.

“We have already started distributing inputs under the Presidential Input Scheme. What kind of Government can you yearn for?

“We are in July and you usually received inputs between October and November. Early distribution of Presidential inputs is due to hard work from my team.

“If you do not perform, then we can never work together,” said President Mnangagwa.

ZANU PF is well known for using government hand outs to campaign especially in the rural areas.

He said inputs under the Command Agriculture Programme will also be released soon.

“There is also Command Agriculture, the inputs will also be coming soon. There are those who supervise that area.”

President Mnangagwa told the gathering that Zimbabwe was now harvesting more tobacco than during the colonial era.

He said Government was on a drive to support cotton farming as well.

“Still in agriculture, we are now farming tobacco more than the days of Ian Smith. On cotton, yesterday (Thursday) we were in Gokwe where we saw loads and loads of cotton,” said Mnangagwa