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Admarc’s absence on the market has exposed maize farmers to unscrupulous traders who are buying the staple grain at 40 percent below the minimum farm gate price. Spot checks Nation on Sunday conducted across the country’s markets found that many traders are buying maize at between K300 and K400 per kilogramme (kg) instead of the
Without using chemical fertiliser, Jenipher Phiri, 49, of Kauzegalu Village in Kasungu District used to toil in vain in her barren crop field. She recalls: “Even with favourable rainfall, all the hard work yielded nothing because I couldn’t afford chemical fertiliser.” Most land in Malawi is degraded, making it hard for 80 percent of the