Malawians urged to stop buying foreign products

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Joseph Mwanamvekha

Minister of Trade and Industry, Joseph Mwanamvekha has expressed concern at Malawians’ tendency to buy foreign products.

The minister said failure by citizens to buy local products is affecting the country’s economy.

According to Mwanamvekha, if Malawians promote their own products it means that demand, production, and employment will increase.

Joseph Mwanamvekha
Developments of this sort are welcome :Mwanamvekha

“We would like to change the mindset of the people of not buying local goods, in the Buy Malawian Strategy we have managed to analyse some of the challenges why Malawians do not buy their own locally made products.

“Some of the reasons include pricing, lack of quality products, lack of access to markets and less production, therefore, we intend to enhance manufacturing, value addition, increase exportation of the Malawian goods and replacement of the importation goods on the market to help in promotion of the local goods,” said Mwanamvekha.

He further said government want to see increased production of local goods for exportation and less importation of goods hence the promotion of increased production of agricultural products.

Mwanamvekha also said that the strategy has come about after reviewing the Best Malawian Campaign which was launched in 2009, which has however not borne any positive fruits since its launch.

The Buy Malawi Strategy mainly aims at communicating to the public the benefits of buying local products.