Month: July 2021 Posts

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 &… ...

ECAMA concerned over viability of duty-free week

Jun 07, 2021 Malawi24 Reporter 0 &

Economics Association of Malawi (ECAMA) says the duty-free week which will be introduced in the 2021/22 financial year  will  stifle local production as it promotes imports and will see government losing revenue. ECAMA raised its… ...

Karonga district to have bumper harvest

Mar 28, 2021 Malawi24 Reporter 0 &

Written by: Naomi Langisi Karonga Director of Agriculture Environment and Natural Resources Raphael Mkisi says there is high expectation that farmers in the district will have a 25 percent increase in crop harvesting this year… ...

People of Mzimba West fault Government over AIP

Feb 14, 2021 Mike Lyson Zgambo 0 &

People living around Kafukule, Malidadi and Mpherembe in Mzimba West are concerned over food shortage this year  as they have failed to buy fertilizer under the Affordable Input Program (AIP) because of the system government… ...

Chakwera says Tonse will achieve plenty in 2021

Jan 01, 2021 Mwayi Mkandawire 0 &

President Lazarus Chakwera says considering what the Tonse Alliance administration has accomplished in 185 days, he is convinced that plenty will be achieved in this new year He made the remarks on Thursday in a… ...

Woman collapses while waiting to buy cheap fertilizer

Dec 10, 2020 Malawi24 Reporter 0 &

A 65-year-old woman collapsed on Wednesday morning while standing in a queue for Affordable Inputs Programme (AIP) in Dedza district, police have confirmed. The deceased identified as Shyleen Kamtameni of Kumtelera village in the area… ...