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State President Dr. Lazarus McCarthy Chakwera has launched the 2021/2022 Affordable Inputs Programme (AIP), with an impassioned call to Malawians to exercise patience on promises the Tonse Alliance administration made in the run-up to the court-sanctioned June 23 Fresh Presidential Election. Chakwera has also called for an honest relationship between the government and private sector […]

President Dr. Lazarus McCarthy Chakwera has described the opening of the fertilizer terminal and blending plant at Liwonde as a timely intervention towards weaning smallholder farmers from the costly Affordable Inputs Programme (AIP). Chakwera said AIP is expensive because it is largely an imports programme, and that plants like the one he opened at Liwonde […]

The Centre for Democracy and Economic Development Initiatives (CDEDI) has demanded the resignation of the Minister of Agriculture, Irrigation and Water Development, Lobin Lowe, accusing him of reducing the number of Affordable Inputs Programme (AIP) without consulting President Dr. Lazarus Chakwera. CDEDI executive director Sylvester Namiwa argues that the ‘unilateral decision’ Lowe made has made […]

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As one way of flushing out the ghost beneficiaries on Affordable Inputs Programme (AIP) list, the Ministry of agriculture has embarked on a process to revise the list and remove all those who are not eligible to be on the list. In his words, the Ministry’s spokesperson Gracian Lungu said that the preparations for the 2021/2022 have already started, and that government will ensure that the beneficiaries start accessing the inputs by July this year. “We have done all the preparations for t...

“The Malawi economy can do away with its reliance on tobacco.” There is need for Malawi to seriously reform its agricultural industry because there is no future for the dying gold leaf, tobacco, Malawi President Lazarus Chakwera has said. Chakwera made the remarks Wednesday as he delivered a State of the Nation Address (SONA) at Malawi Parliament in the capital, Lilongwe under the theme accelerating the change Malawians fought for. No future for tobacco industry President Chakwera, who bemo...

April 22, 2021 Nyasa Times 3 Comments Malawi’s flamboyant vice president Saulos Klaus Chilima, who is also the founding president of UTM, one of the key partners in the Tonse Alliance government has come out of his cocoon after a long silence and publicly pleaded for unity due to incessant intra-parties fielding. A passionate Chilima, popularly known as SKC, had to publicly come down on his knees symbolising the depth of the problems in Karonga immediately after inspecting some develop...

The Board chairperson for the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), Hailemariam Desalegn — who is also former Prime Minister of Ethiopia — met with Malawi President Lazarus Chakwera at State House in Lilongwe on Saturday where they discussed progress on the country’s agricultural transformation. Chakwera with AGRA leader Desalegn — who is also former Prime Minister of Ethiopia  A group photo after the meeting AGRA is Malawi’s key agriculture partner working to transfor...