Month: October 2022 Posts

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… ...