Agriculture – Page 25 – Maravi Express – Your Kind of News. Clear and accurate.

CAMA likens the 10,000 metric tonnes rotten maize as equivalent to genocide

March 2, 2023

* Consumers are currently paying one of the highest prices for maize on the market * Which is selling approximately at K35,000 to K40,000 per 50kg bag * These high prices of maize on the market are as a result of manmade scarcities of maize * While Government was holding onto lots of stocks of maize By Duncan Mlanjira Consumers Association of Malawi (CAMA) Executive Director John Kapito says they are shocked to hear that “Government has lost 10,000…

Malawi records above normal historical rainfall amounts for majority of southern areas in 10-day rainfall period of February

February 24, 2023

| No Comments

| Agriculture, National, News

* Locally heavy rains experienced during the dekad with maize over southern areas maturing with central and northern tasseling to cobing * Wet conditions to persist over Malawi during the last decad of February 21-28 By Duncan Mlanjira In its 10-day weather and agrometeorological bulletin, the Department of Climate Change & Meteorological Services reports that during the period of February 11-20, the Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ), oscillated over Malawi — “resulting in scattered rainfall activities which were heavy at…

CDH Investment Bank enhances MoU partnership with LUANAR though tree planting exercise

February 23, 2023

| No Comments

| Agriculture, Business, Education, News

* CDHIB is mindful of how our country has been adversely affected by floods and cyclones * That negatively impacted the economy through loss of energy, damage to properties and many other others * We are proud to contribute to the national tree planting season through this partnership with LUANAR By Alfred Chauwa The first activity under the memorandum of understanding (MoU) — that CDH Investment Bank (CDHIB) signed earlier this year with Lilongwe University of Agriculture & Natural…

Minister of Trade tasked to deploy a rapid strategy that tracks illicit exportation of Malawi’s produce

February 19, 2023

| No Comments

| Agriculture, Business, National, News

* Government to continue in establishing a digital platform for marking and tracking all commodities traded in our economy * In March last year, I spoke about the need to support the local industry by encouraging the local buying of materials for Government officers such as police uniforms * Yet, just last week, uniforms for police officers were captured at the airport, which means some in our midst do not take this policy seriously By Duncan Mlanjira President Lazarus…

Agriculture must go beyond AIP social protection programmes—Chakwera’s SONA

February 19, 2023

| No Comments

| Agriculture, Business, National, News

* Government pushing for agricultural mechanization, commercialization, and industrialization through Mega Farms concept * Which are aimed at establishing large production units for increased agricultural production * Farming communities are being organised into cooperatives and alliances that can grow crops at scale * And add value for both local and international markets By Duncan Mlanjira President Lazarus Chakwera emphasizes that it goes without saying that the country cannot transform the economy without revitalizing its primary sector of agriculture, saying…

Chakwera spells out a number of his Administration’s programmes on social protection efforts through AIP

February 19, 2023

| No Comments

| Agriculture, National, News

* The first is the need to cushion the poorest and most vulnerable Malawians * Against the harshest blows of the global and local economic thunderstorm that is raging in the short-term * And the second is the need to lay a foundation for restructuring the economy for transformation in the long term By Duncan Mlanjira In his State of the Nation Address (SONA) on Friday, President Lazarus Chakwera announced progress of his efforts in laying a foundation for…

Chakwera felt not intimidated for anticipated “hostile reception” ahead of his SONA on Friday

February 19, 2023

| No Comments

| Agriculture, Business, National, News, Politics

* As a former member of this House, I have friends and colleagues on both sides of the political divide * And some of them warned me that my reception in this Chamber today may be hostile * However, I have come today without anxiety, not only because it is required of me to be here by Section 89 of our Republic’s Constitution * But also because the time I spent as a Member of this House persuades me…

Government invites applications for 4 top executive posts at ADMARC

February 16, 2023

| No Comments

| Agriculture, Business, National, News

Posts tenable at Head Office in Limbe * Posts of chief executive officer; head of operations; head of finance and head of human resources & administration * Board of Directors resolved to overhaul the agriculture marketing company by corporate restructuring * And approved its new structures with new skills sets to take the new ADMARC forward after all employees were retrenched Maravi Express Comptroller of Statutory Corporations has released a public notice inviting interested people to apply for top…

SMEDI building capacity for beekeeping small holders entrepreneurs in Nkhata Bay

February 14, 2023

| No Comments

| Agriculture, Business, News

Practical training on beekeeping * They are being trained in business plan development under Transforming Agriculture through Diversification and Entrepreneurship (TRADE) programme * SMEDI will continue to work with different stakeholders by facilitating the formation of Malawi entrepreneurship ecosystem * That ensures that all key players work with a consolidated approach in promoting MSMEs in the country By Duncan Mlanjira Small and Medium Enterprises Development Institute (SMEDI), the parastatal organization under the Ministry of Industry & Trade, is building…

Malawi secures momentous US$6.85 billion from Belgium’s BRIDGIN Foundation

November 28, 2022

| 1 Comment

| Agriculture, Business, National, News

Prof. Tanko Mouhamadou hands over the signed agreement to Finance Minister, Sosten Gwengwe * To construct M’mbelwa University to build the nation’s capacity in the production and management of animal resources * To increase our electricity generation capacity to 1000MW * To build 25-story twin towers at Capital Hill to house modern offices for Government * To build new cities and construction of a Medical City in Chileka, Blantyre, with satellites in Lilongwe and Mzuzu * To move the…