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Business
Min dangles agri sector investment opportunities
Agriculture Minister Lobin Lowe on Tuesday reiterated Malawi’s call for foreign direct investment into the agriculture and other sectors of…
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Ministry to engage Treasury on AIP funds
Following President Lazarus Chakwera’s directive that all the 3.8 million people under the Affordable Inputs Programme (AIP) should receive inputs,…
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National
Food not maize only, government says
By Ellen Pindani: The Ministry of Agriculture has urged Malawians to redefine the meaning of food by going beyond just…
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National
UN Assistant Secretary General to visit Malawi
Reported by Khumbo Kaliwo: United Nations Assistant Secretary-General and Coordinator of Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement, Gerda Verburg, will visit…
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Business
Government for intensified irrigation systems
Agriculture Minister Lobin Lowe has reaffirmed the government’s commitment to intensify irrigation in all parts of the country as a…
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Business
Subsidise Climate Insurance—CSOs
Civil society organisations (CSOs) working in the environment space have asked the government to consider subsidising climate insurance for local…
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National
Malawi imports 20,000 tonnes of bananas every week
Agriculture Minister Lobin Lowe has called for more investors in banana farming, saying the country imports about 20,000 tonnes of…
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Business
Malawi to participate at UN food systems summit
By Blessings Mpinganjira: Malawi is expected to take part in the United Nations food systems summit set for New York,…
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Business
‘Farmers are being duped’
Minister of Agriculture Lobin Lowe has conceded that vendors and firms are still duping some farmers, buying commodities such as…
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Business
Cotton farmers settle for K360/kg
Cotton farmers in the country have agreed to sell the commodity at K360 per kilogramme (kg) which exceeds the government-set…
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