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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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