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3 Thousand Farmers Yet to Redeem AIP Fertilizer
With four days to go before the closure of this year s Affordable Input Program AIP - about 300,000 farmers across the country are yet to purchase the inputs.
Ministry of agriculture spokesperson Grecian Lungu on Monday attributed this to farmers deliberately not choosing to purchase the inputs because they have no identity card or they are dead while in others there are not inputs.
Lungu said now the ministry has engaged smallholder fertilizer revolving fund in mobile vending of the inputs to reach out to farmers who are yet to buy the inputs before the closure of the program on Saturday.
Over Two Million Households Benefit From Affordable Input Program
File: Poor Malawians waiting for their turn to buy cheap fertilizer
Lilongwe, Mana: Following the official launch of the Affordable Input Program (AIP) on October 17, 2020 at Jali in Zomba District, around 2.9 million households across the country have so far benefited from the program representing 77 percent.
Ministry of Agriculture Spokesperson, Grecian Lungu, confirmed the development in an interview Malawi News Agency (MANA).
He said since January 4, 2021, the number of fertilizer and seeds selling points has increased from 677 to 1, 407 in order to allow ease of accessing the inputs.
“On fertilizer cumulative sales, NPK has sold 147, 671 MT representing 78 percent, Urea 140, 964 MT representing 74 percent, total fertilizer sales 288, 635 representing 76.2 percent while seed sales are 11,738 MT representing 61.3 percent,” he said.