Category: Agriculture

* The global demand for Baobab tree products has surged in recent years, driven by the fruit’s nutritional and health benefits * This growing demand has become a double-edged sword, raising concerns about the sustainability of these ancient trees * In 2022, the entire baobab trees were controversially uprooted in Kenya and exported to Georgia in Eastern Europe * Eight trees were exported but later died, signalling the lack of prior research about their viability in their new home…

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* The bag produces 150 half-litre cups, one each needed for every food crop planting station * Funds generated from the sales are ploughed back to community members through provision of livestock as farming alternative * For community members who cultivate on the mountainsides and provided organic waste used to produce compost fertilizer By Duncan Mlanjira Ndirande Community Impact Group produces compost fertilizer from organic waste, which is sold and its proceeds are channeled towards its environmental conservation of…

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* Funds are generated from sale of compost fertilizer produced from waste which community members provide * As Ndirande Mountain’s Forestry Season is launched which is part of the annual national period of tree replacement * Which the government launched yesterday by Vice-President Michael Usi at Lufita Primary School in Chitipa By Duncan Mlanjira The Ndirande Community Impact Group, a volunteer gathering of like minds towards the environmental conservation, is facilitating the provision of livestock, such as poultry and…

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Kamuzu Bridge in Chikwawa on Shire River * As the remnants of Tropical Cyclone CHIDO are expected to continue weakening while moving at 22km/h towards the west and it is likely to exit Malawi by this afternoon * CHIDO’s remnants may still bring heavy rainfall and damaging winds, which may lead to infrastructure damage, flash flooding, and other impacts By Duncan Mlanjira The Ministry of Water & Sanitation informs the public that there has been insignificant impact of the Tropical…

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Malawi’s vision moving at slow pace * Israel GDP stands at US$564 billion with agriculture contributing US$1.1 billion to the total GDP * The concept of Israel’s economic recovery plan (ERP) has elements Malawi can benefit from * Central Banks must never finance government deficit; it is the killer of many economies — avoid it By Duncan Mlanjira Serious manufacturing can really send a nation to the next level as evidenced by Israel’s economic revolution’, contends Thomas Ngoma —…

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