Category: Agriculture

* Also urged tobacco farmers to do the right thing by growing high quality tobacco in order to get the best from buyers * We can’t continue producing low quality leaf and then expect to get the best from buyers Maravi Express President Lazarus Chakwera has urged tobacco stakeholders in the country to continue working together in harmony to create a vibrant industry — also appealing to them to ensure that farmers reap the rewards of their hard work….

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* It will help government to have fixed markets that will absorb all the products that farmers have produced * My advice is that government enables farmers who are licenced to export their products By Levison Lester, MANA Director of Research and Outreach at the Lilongwe University of Agriculture & Natural Resources (LUANAR), Samson Katengeza is supporting government’s decision to ban exportation of raw soya beans, saying it will help in controlling and tracing the country’s forex. Ministry of…

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* No one should fail to grow bananas simply because they don’t have the farming inputs of suckers * On top of that I will also share with you some modern banana farming practices By Duncan Mlanjira Encouraged by a rich harvest of bananas at his Golden Valley Farm in Lilongwe, Chris Tukula is enticing fellow farmers to venture into mega farming of the crop in order to discourage the influx importation of bananas from Tanzania and other neighbouring…

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* Necessitated following an assessment of soya bean production for the current agricultural production season * Ministry of Agriculture’s national crop estimate exercise has shown that there is a 20% decline in the production of soya beans * Attributed to the adverse weather conditions experienced in the current farming season in Malawi By Gift Chiponde, MANA The Ministry of Trade & Industry, in collaboration with the Ministry of Agriculture, has suspended the exportation of raw soya beans with effect…

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* Continuous heavy rainfall led to flooding of Linga Dam affecting crops at Linga Irrigation Scheme and some surrounding areas * Water has overflowed to our place of business and some structures have collapsed as they are now submerged in water By Chisomo Kambandanga & George Mponda, MANA District Commissioner for Nkhata Bay, Rodgers Newa disclosed that over 250 hectares of crops have been washed away by floods in the area of Senior Chief Fukamapiri in the district. And…

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