Category: Agriculture

* Concluded this morning at Mzonde in the area of Senior Chief Kalolo in Lilongwe * The projects signifies government’s commitment to improving the country’s infrastructure and the livelihood of Malawians * Ensuring improved transport through the construction of road networks which will help subsistence farmers Maravi Express At the launch of the US-funded Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) Compact 2, also known as the Malawi Transport & Land Compact, President Lazarus Chakwera expressed his gratitude to the United States…

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* As Nkaya-Lilongwe railway operations set to resume soon as rehabilitation is near complete * Council assures CEAR it will engage all the business committees who are plying their businesses along the rail line By Andrew Mkonda, MANA & Duncan Mlanjira, Maravi Express Central East African Railways Company Limited (CEAR) has asked Lilongwe District Council to remove and relocate people who had encroached the railway reserve to pave way for completion of rail rehabilitation. A statement from CEAR says…

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* Malawi Agriculture Mechanisation initiative to assist smallholder farmers in improving crop yield and maintaining soil fertility through the use of tractors * PMI pledges its continued support for modern agricultural mechanization, school feeding programs and other initiatives Malawi News Agency President Lazarus Chakwera has launched the Malawi Agriculture Mechanisation initiative which has been funded by Philip Morris International (PMI) and to be implemented by Pyxus. He thus emphasized the importance of investing in agricultural mechanization to enhance Malawi’s agricultural…

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* To be implemented by Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) with support from Mastercard * Over 50% of the population in the country are young people. If we leave them behind, the country will never develop * That is why more programmes are now geared towards young people because they have the energy, are creative and passionate By Moses Nyirenda, MANA Government has launched a five-year project dubbed Youth Entrepreneurship for the Future of Agriculture (YEFFA),…

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* Over 50,000 metric tonnes of cotton is needed annually to meet local manufacturing and value addition demand * While the demand on the export market is in excess of 200,000 metric tonnes—Minister Kawale By Moses Nyirenda, MANA Minister of Agriculture, Sam Kawale, says on the domestic scene, over 50,000 metric tonnes of cotton is needed annually to meet local manufacturing and value addition demand while on the export market, it is in excess of 200,000 metric tonnes. Thus…

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