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Government needs to put up strategies of how to attain the macroeconomic stability to attain MW2063 MIP-1 targets

March 15, 2024

* Budget alignment to pillar’s priority intervention of Agriculture Productivity & Commercialization, Industrialization and Urbanization is weak * The country is far from the target inflation of less than 10% and growth rate of at least 6%, which threatens achievement of the desired growth By Duncan Mlanjira In its analysis of the 2024/2025 National Budget, Parliamentary Committee on Budget observes that government needs to put up strategies of how to attain the macroeconomic stability — saying the country is far…

Chakwera tours Karonga’s value addition Nthola-Illola Rice Processing Plant

March 11, 2024

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* Producing 50 tons of rice per day and ensuring the rice is of great quality — starting from the field up to processing * Government is supporting the project with financial resources through GreenBelt Authority By Tawonga Moyo, MANA President Lazarus Chakwera on Monday visited Nthola-Illola Rice Processing Plant in Karonga to appreciate the factory’s contribution to value addition chain in rice production and marketing. The President was taken inside the factory where he was showed different rice…

Army-worms exacerbate diminishing crop yields in some parts of the country

March 9, 2024

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Heavily attacked maize crop in some parts of the country—Pictures courtesy of Malawi Weather Chasers * Amidst these adversities, could genetically modified (GMO) crops offer a viable solution? * LUANAR is conducting a ‘confined field trial for biotechnology developed maize crop’ * With an aim to confirm the efficacy of GMO maize crop in line against leaf-eating insects and herbicides tolerance Feature by Leonard Masauli, MANA As most farmers continue to face effects of climate change such as dry…

Government scales up irrigation farming by allocating K100 billion

March 9, 2024

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* The dry spells in the country in the past months of the rain season caused by El Niño, need to be countered strategically * By employing measures such as irrigation and collaborating with already existing mega farmers from across the country By Fostina Mkandawire, MANA Minister of Agriculture Sam Kawale on Thursday announced that Government has allocated K100 billion towards intensification of irrigation farming through mega farms as a way of ensuring that maize reserves remain sufficient throughout…

World Bank presents a special topic on ‘Healthy Watersheds for a Strong Economy’

March 4, 2024

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* Healthy watersheds can benefit everyone in Malawi, but they need to be cared for and nurtured * “Human activities are increasingly detrimental to the health of Malawi’s watersheds * The rapid conversion of land for agriculture and widespread deforestation for wood are proceeding at an alarming rate * Forest cover has declined from 47% in 1975 to just over 20% in 2021 By Duncan Mlanjira Watersheds play a crucial role in sustaining the ecosystem, biodiversity, wildlife, agriculture, and…

Illovo Sugar Malawi providing water for irrigation for sorrounding Nchalo Estate communities

March 3, 2024

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* Illovo is also expected to source other partners and market opportunities while the communities will take ownership of the scheme * The scheme members finance for themselves in buying all farm inputs (seeds, fertilizer, labour for planting, weeding etc) * The diversification is through cultivating cash crops such as sugar beans and cotton, which thrives well in the climate conditions of the Lower Shire By Duncan Mlanjira Through partnership with USAID’s ‘Feed the Future Agricultural Diversification Activity’ —…

Nkhata Bay benefits from Linga Irrigation Scheme

February 27, 2024

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* From the 1,000 hectares designed, 450 hectares of land have been utilized, through which farmers have managed to produce 900 metric tonnes of rice and 12 metric tonnes of beans * In the next farming season, we’ll be adopting new technologies called system of rice intensification whereby we expect to double three times the initial production realized By Tawonga Moyo, MANA The establishment of Linga Irrigation Scheme in Nkhata Bay, the biggest of its kind in the country,…

WFP processing 23,000 metric tonnes of maize flour for government to distribute to hunger-threatened households

February 25, 2024

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* The food distribution exercise as a significant milestone in WFP’s efforts to alleviate the plight of vulnerable people who urgently require food assistance * The government has hit the ground running by reaching out to affected vulnerable people in Blantyre By Duncan Mlanjira World Food Programme (WFP) Malawi handed over 1,400 metric tonnes of maize for the government distribute to food-insecure people under the 2023/24 lean season food insecurity response programme. This is the first consignment of 23,000…

Chakwera defends decision to migrate SOE’s bank accounts from commercial banks to RBM

February 22, 2024

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* The President already explained in his SONA that the decision was to stop the government from borrowing its own money from commercial banks * It is fundamentally and morally wrong to continue this policy of allowing a few entities to control the wealth of Malawians for their own self-enrichment Sheminah Nkhoma & Sellah Singini, MANA President Lazarus Chakwera says his administration is committed to ensuring that state-owned enterprises (SOEs) are part of a wider reform agenda of the…

Government puts in place interventions on current food insecurity situation

February 21, 2024

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* Implemented through maize distribution and cash transfers—Minister Kunkuyu * Emphasised the need for Malawi to graduate from financing subsistence farming to agricultural commercialisation By Patricia Kapulula, MANA Minister of Information & Digitalisation, Moses Kunkuyu, government has put in place interventions on the current food insecurity situation — implemented through maize distribution and cash transfers. Kunkuyu, who is also government spokesperson, made the remarks at a press briefing at Central Office of Information (COI) in Lilongwe on Tuesday on…