Month: January 2022 Posts

Couple found with 37 bags of AIP fertilizer

Jan 19, 2022 Malawi24 Reporter 0 &

Lingadzi Police Station has arrested a 50-year-old man and his 43-year-old wife for being found with 37 bags of fertilizer meant to be sold under the Affordable Inputs Programme (AIP). The man has been identified… ...

Man arrested for possessing four national IDs at Admarc depot

Dec 29, 2021 Martha Chikoti 0 &

A 28-year-old man is in police custody at Dowa Police Station for being found in possession of four national identity cards which he wanted to use to buy affordable farm inputs. Dowa Police Public Relations… ...

Dowa Police embarks on AIP monitoring exercise

Dec 18, 2021 Lameck Kamtoseni 0 &

Dowa Police Station led by the Officer In-Charge, Deputy Commissioner of Police Violet Magwaya on Friday conducted Affordable Input Program (AIP) monitoring exercise in a number of selling points within its policing jurisdiction. According to… ...

MPs asks government to solve AIP challenges

Nov 29, 2021 Martha Chikoti 0 &

Members of Parliament have complained about the challenges that people in their constituencies are facing when accessing inputs under Affordable Inputs Program (AIP) and have asked government through the Minister of Agriculture to address the… ...

Fake Police officer arrested in Ntchisi

Nov 22, 2021 Malawi24 Reporter 0 &

Chakhadza Banda, 43, has been arrested in Ntchisi after he posed as a police officer at an Agricultural Inputs Subsidy program (AIP) satellite depot at Nthesa trading centre in the district. Sergeant Yohane Tasowana, Public… ...

Two arrested in Zomba over AIP fertilizer

Nov 18, 2021 Malawi24 Reporter 0 &

Two Agricultural Development and Marketing Corporation (ADMARC) workers have been arrested in Zomba for selling fertilizer suspected to have been stolen. Zomba Police publicist, Patricia Sipiliano, has identified the two as Gift Chinamwali, 38, a… ...

Chakwera blasts AIP critics

Nov 12, 2021 Mwayi Mkandawire 0 &

President Lazarus Chakwera says complaints about cost of the Affordable Inputs Program (AIP) come from people who live in ivory towers on a full stomach. The Malawi leader has since declared that his administration will… ...

Chakwera administration faulted for rushing to launch AIP

Oct 21, 2021 Archangel Nzangaya 0 &

Agriculture Committee of Parliament has faulted the President Lazarus Chakwera led government for proceeding to launch the 2021 Affordable Input Program (AIP) before preparations for the implementation of the program had been finalised. On Saturday,… ...

Boma lati linafusa kaye lisanakweze mtengo wa feteleza

Sep 17, 2021 Archangel Nzangaya 1 &

Boma la Malawi lati linayamba lafusa kaye kumbali zonse zokhudzidwa ngati kunali koyenera kukweza mtengo wa feteleza mundondomeko yazipangizo zaulimi zotsika mtengo, AIP, ndipo lati alimi ena amati panalibe vuto mtengo olo ukanafika pa K10,000.… ...

Govt raises price of AIP fertilizer

Sep 16, 2021 Russell Kondowe 0 &

Government says farmers will now be paying K7,500 for a 50KG bag of fertilizer under the Affordable Inputs Programme (AIP). This is an increase from the K4,495 which farmers were paying under the AIP in… ...

State House downplays concerns over conflicting statements on AIP

Sep 13, 2021 Mwayi Mkandawire 0 &

State House has downplayed concerns over conflicting statements from Minister of Agriculture and President Lazarus Chakwera on the Affordable Inputs Programme (AIP). This morning during the State House brief, Director of Communications at State House,… ...

Difficult to maintain AIP beneficiaries list, Minister tells CDEDI

Sep 04, 2021 Martha Chikoti 0 &

The Centre for Democracy and Economic Development Initiatives (CDEDI) says Minister of Agriculture Lobin Lowe has told the organization that the initial beneficiaries’ list of the Affordable Inputs Programme (AIP) can only be maintained if… ...

CDEDI demands Lowe’s resignation over AIP

Aug 27, 2021 Martha Chikoti 0 &

Centre for Democracy and Economic Development Initiatives (CDEDI) has called on Minister of Agriculture Lobin Lowe to resign, saying his ministry reduced the number of Affordable Input Programme (AIP) beneficiaries without consulting President Lazarus Chakwera… ...

Over one million farmers removed from AIP beneficiary list

Jul 23, 2021 Mwayi Mkandawire 1 &

Affordable Input Programme (AIP), the Lazarus Chakwera administration’s flagship programme, will have one million less beneficiaries this year with government citing financial constraints and rising fertilizer prices as factors for the reduction in number of… ...

AIP has shifted focus from other crops to Maize – MPs

Jun 12, 2021 Martha Chikoti 0 &

Parliamentarians have expressed concern that the Affordable Inputs Subsidy Programme (AIP) has moved the focus from other crops such as Tobacco to Maize alone. This was said during a Cluster Committee on Agriculture Irrigation &… ...