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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… ...