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Scientists say Malawi can achieve food security using biotechnology

Oct 03, 2022 Archangel Nzangaya 0 &

Scientists in the agriculture sector says Malawi can easily achieve its food security dreams if the science of using biological systems or living organisms to create or modify agricultural products such as genetically modified crops… ...

Women receive bee-keeping training, beehives in Mzimba

Sep 25, 2022 Malawi24 Reporter 0 &

By Sopani Ng’ambi Thirty women have been trained in bee-keeping and have received beehives at Mtende in Mzimba North as one way of empowering them economically. Citizen Impact Organization (CIO) Field Officer, Wisdom Moyo, said… ...

Electricity blackouts frustrate family’s dairy farming business

Sep 11, 2022 Raphael Banda 0 &

Ntawila family from Makungula Village, Traditional Authority Nkagula in Zomba say electricity blackouts have greatly affected their dairy and poultry farming businesses. Gloria and Lovemore Ntawila told Malawi 24 that they started daily farming in… ...

EIB, First Capital Bank launch K25 billion agriculture investment scheme

Sep 10, 2022 Martha Chikoti 0 &

European Investment Bank (EIB) has partnered with First Capital Bank for a K25 billion agriculture investment scheme which will enable small scale farmers to have access to loans with the aim of accelerating agriculture investment… ...

Communities in Nkhata Bay narrate benefits of sustainable fishing

Aug 06, 2022 Malawi24 Reporter 0 &

Communities in Nkhata Bay say they have managed to deal with human activities that were leading to reduction of fish in Lake Malawi and have now noticed changes in availability of fish in the lake.… ...

Bayito App links farmers, buyer

Jun 30, 2022 Malawi24 Reporter 0 &

By Edwin Mauluka A newly founded local company has developed a friendly and innovative online farmers market application called Bayito (‘buy it all’) which provides simplified and secure payment methods to local farmers using mobile… ...

JTI says Tobacco season has been tough for both buyers and growers

Jun 24, 2022 Martha Chikoti 0 &

One of Malawi's tobacco buyers, JTI Limited, says delayed rainfall during the 2021/22 tobacco growing season has affected contracted growers as well as the company. The company said this during a media briefing on 2021/2022… ...

Dairy farmers given hope over prices

Jun 02, 2022 Malawi News Agency (MANA) 0 &

Minister of Agriculture, Lobin Lowe, says government will speed up the process of establishing a National Milk Marketing Board to control milk production and regulate minimum price for the product in the country. He disclosed… ...

Optichem hikes fertilizer prices

May 30, 2022 Malawi24 Reporter 0 &

New prices Optichem (2000) Limited has increased prices of fertilizer effective on the 30th May, 2022, following the 25% devaluation of Kwacha that happened on the 27th May, 2020. According to communication Malawi24 has seen,… ...

Smallholder farmers bemoan lack of steady markets

May 29, 2022 Malawi News Agency (MANA) 0 &

Smallholder farmers at Mchenga Irrigation site in Balaka have complained of lack of steady markets for their horticultural products, saying they are forced to sell their products at low prices offered by buyers in the… ...

CAT promotes new farming technologies to farmers

May 14, 2022 Mike Kalumbi 0 &

Centre for Agricultural Transformation (CAT) is promoting new farming technologies to farmers and encouraging them to adopt the technologies in their own farms. The initiative started last year and in Lilongwe it's being implemented at… ...

JTI encourages growers to use live bans for tobacco farming

May 09, 2022 Martha Chikoti 0 &

Japan Tobacco International (JTl) Leaf Malawi Limited has encouraged its growers to plant more trees to expand and establish live ban base for tobacco farming in order to grow tobacco that is required on the… ...

Youths drilled in farming

May 05, 2022 Mike Kalumbi 0 &

A non-governmental organisation called “Conserve with Benefits” has trained youths in agricultural practices that are more resilient to climate change. The youths in this training are from Ukwe EPA, TA Kabudula in Lilongwe district. Speaking… ...

Stick to what works well for you, Chakwera tells farmers

Apr 30, 2022 Contributor* 1 &

President Lazarus Chakwera has told farmers in Mzimba to concentrate on and stick to the type of farming methods that work well for them in order to maximize their produce and generate profits. Chakwera gave… ...

M’mbelwa District Council bans sale of green maize

Apr 15, 2022 Baxter Mkumba 0 &

M'mbelwa District Council has banned the sale of green maize in the council. District Commissioner Rodney Simwaka announced the ban through a press briefing held at Mzimba boma this week, saying the business of selling… ...