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Farmers Fault Govt On Farm Gate Prices The Farmers Union of Malawi (FUM) has trashed this year’s farm gate prices, describing it as unsatisfactory and mockery. “FUM would like to request government to raise the farm gate price for maize to at least K200 per kilogram, says Frighton Njolomole, President of FUM. The ministry of agriculture released the prices that government set for traders and State produce marketer Agricultural Development and Marketing Corporation (ADMARC) to use, includes setting price of maize at MK150 per kilogram from last year’s MK200 per kilogram. T...

Surviving In Illegal Mining By Blessings Kaunda Mzuzu, March 14, Mana: Communities around Bowa and Kadyamauni in Nkhotakota say the illegal mining of gold they are engaged in have improved their livelihood and that most of them have bought fertilizer under Affordable Input Program (AIP). However, the Ministry of Mines, Energy and Natural Resources has reacted it plans to legalize the activities by registering all the communities’ mines so that government can also benefit from them. In an interview on Friday, Village Headman Bowa of Nkhotakota said this year’s subsidized agr...

Navicha arrives at the event Member of Parliament for Thyolo Thava, Mary Thom Navicha has reminded the MCP led government through Deputy Minister of Local Government and Rural Development, Halima Daudi who was the Guest of Honour at the elevation of three Chiefs that Malawians are anxiously waiting for the implementation of the policies that President Lazarus Chakwera promised during campaign. Navicha was speaking in Thyolo on Wednesday, February 9, at the elevation of Traditional Authority (T/A) Khwethemule to Senior Chief who comes from her Constituency, T/A Nsabwe to Senior Chief and Sub/...

BY MULOTWA MULOTWA We know they are not telling you. Or they don’t talk about it in their speeches, because they don’t know. All these are possibilities, imagine, yesterday there was talk of rapids in the sea by Godot.Rapids are not even found at sea – they occur in rivers! I don’t mean to be rude, research before parading plot number 1 to citizens. It was an embarrassing error. Hate this page if you like, our loyalty is to readers and we are here to tell painful truths. Here, we don’t caress egos. Anyway. Folks, the economy is on its knees under the Tonse Govt.

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...