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Business
FOL advocates use of treated seed
By Emmanuel Chirwa: Farmers Organisation Limited (FOL) has urged local farmers to be using treated seeds as a remedy to…
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Farmers panic as rainfall season begins
By Yohane Symon: Some farmer s in the country have expressed fear over the possibility of a fall armyworm outbreak…
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New ways of fighting armyworm, weeds here
The Department of Agricultural Research Services (Dars) plans to introduce a technology known as Push-Pull, currently under trial, to help…
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Armyworm fight takes government to Brazil
The Parliamentary Committee on Agriculture (Pac) and two senior officials from the Ministry of Agriculture have been to Brazil to…
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Features
NGOs in combat against fall armyworms
Locally, we are using everything possible such as pounded Neem leaves and concoctions made of sugar and soup from usipa…
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Synod in fall armyworm mitigation
The Livingstonia Synod of the Church of Central Africa Presbyterian has, through its development department, embarked on a research project…
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National
Government has no money
The government Tuesday admitted that it is facing funding challenges to address the looming hunger crisis, which has already affected…
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Worms, dry spell wipe out 580,000 hectares
A report on estimated loss of maize due to Fall Armyworms and dry spell released by the Ministry of Agriculture,…
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3.4 million people already affected by dry spell, armyworms
With only three months to go before harvest, Malawi is facing a looming hunger which could potentially affect millions of…
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Features
Malawi’s new-found love: Crop diseases (Part Two)
In the maize fields of Dedza District in villages such as Kamgulitse, Mng’ona, Kuthindi, Msesa— which have, so far, been…
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