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Fertilizer Association of Malawi ordered to reduce price Agriculture - The Maravi Post

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 the beneficiaries to start accessing the inputs this coming July. What we all want is to make sure th...

“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 bemoaned that the future of the country’s tobacco industry is on the deathbed, said: “It is sad that...

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 development projects and called for a unity of purpose among all the partners of the Tonse Alliance. Speaki...

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 transform the country’s agricultural systems and increase the productivity and income of smallholder farme...