JB against maize exports
President Joyce Banda on Monday ordered the Police and the Ministry of Agriculture to seal borders to stop maize exports. […]
Agriculture
Govt orders Optichem to replace “Sand Fertilizer”
Government has ordered Optichem Fertilizer Company to dispatch another load of fertilizer to Mangochi where about 114 bags of fertilizer […]
Malawi-Angola: Food crises and response
Prolonged dry spells have driven almost four million people to food insecurity in Malawi and oil-rich Angola, in Southern Africa. […]
Fertilizer subsidy budget overruns
Malawi government is expected to spend beyond the K42 billion it budgeted for this year’s Farm Input Subsidy Programme – […]
Climate Change: Believing and Seeing Implies Adapting
To communicate climate change and adaptation to stakeholders such as European forest owners is a challenge. A capacity to adapt […]
Poor planning haunts subsidy programme, says Jumbe
An agriculturalist says damage control on the irregularities in the Fertiliser Input Subsidy Programme will not yield much result. The […]
67% Fisp fertilizer already on the market
The Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security says 67 percent of the fertiliser for the Farm Input Subsidy Programme (Fisp) […]
Mulli Brothers fails to pay tea estate workers as 500 quit jobs in protest
Mulli Brothers is failing to pay its tea estate workers in Mulanje and 500 of them have gone to the […]
HIV positive farmer improves health and income by raising goats
Farmer Yohane Machira tested positive for HIV in 2002. Yet the farmer, who hails from Kasiya, northwest of the capital […]
Stakeholders to agree IPS practices
Government says despite adoption of the Integrated Production System (IPS) for tobacco marketing, stakeholders are discussing standards and guidelines to […]
Patchy rains in Malawi bring harvests to some, hunger to many
Drought in parts of Malawi spelled disaster for farmers like Saukila who live from harvest to harvest, surviving on what […]
Tobacco Control Commission (TCC) optimistic of better tobacco volumes
The Tobacco Control Commission (TCC) is optimistic of better tobacco volumes for next year because of the increased number of […]
Subsidy fertilizer siphoned off bags
Police have uncovered that racketeers in the Farm Input Subsidy Programme (Fisp) are also siphoning the fertiliser off its bags, […]
Subsidy coupons delay—minister
Minister of Agriculture Peter Mwanza has admitted that not all coupons for 1.7 million beneficiaries of the farm input subsidy […]
Food exports can earn Malawi forex, says Auction Holdings Limited (AHL) Chief Executive Evans Matabwa
Malawi is missing out on opportunities to diversify its export base through existing opportunities of global food shortages and drought, […]
Clouds on horizon for Malawi tobacco farmers
Government officials and health experts from around the world are meeting this week in South Korea to discuss a series […]
Maize prices up by 75% since Oct 2011
Maize prices have risen by 75 percent from K32.75 ($0.10) to K57.29 ($0.19) per kg since October last year. According […]
Cutting carbon and alleviating poverty
When it comes to climate change, individuals have traditionally been in a frustrating position. Our daily activities cause fossil fuels […]