APM to launch Buy Malawi Strategy
President Peter Mutharika will on Friday preside over the launch of the Buy Malawi Strategy (BMS), a component of Ministry of Industry and Trade’s production expansion and industrialization facilitation agenda.
The launch is scheduled to take place at Bingu International Conference Center in Lilongwe, according to a statement made available to Nyasa Times.
The statement said the ‘Buy Malawi Strategy’ compliments government’s mission to promote industry, trade and private sector development for sustainable economic growth.
“The spirit behind the Buy Malawi Strategy is to encourage consumption of locally produced goods and services through deliberate interventions. Consequently, it is expected that such conduct will substantially enhance competitiveness of local firms through stimulation of local production and growth.
“This, it is envisaged, will be achieved by mobilizing the Malawian citizenry to embrace locally produced goods and services and building capacity in the competitiveness of enterprises by securing domestic demand for local firms’ outputs and promoting industrialization, a key priority in the Malawi Growth and Development Strategy (MGDS II),” reads the statement in part.
The Buy Malawi Strategy has benefitted from financial and technical assistance from the Government of Malawi, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Private Sector.
Executive Director for Consumers Association of Malawi (Cama) John Kapito and Indigenous Business Association of Malawi (Ibam) chairperson, Mike Mlombwa, said Buy Malawian campaign, if successfully executed, would help Malawi minimise imports and in turn save foreign exchange.
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THIS IS A REPEAT OR COPY CAT OF MCP REGIME…IT WAS THERE BEFORE SO IT IS NOT a NEW LAUNCH BUT RELAUNCH OR REVIVAL OF THE BEST BUY MALAWI…THERE WAS EVEN IMWANI TEA WAMBIRI CAMPAIGN REMEMBER?
Koma iwowo azigula? Acheyatu timakumana nawo mu PTC (Peoples) kkkkkkkkkkkk
What products??????
It’s a free world Malawians are free to buy whatever their Heart desires
this is a good idea bravo APM kumeneko ndiye kuganiza komanga malawiosati enawa omangofuna maudindo. amalawi tiyeni titaye ndale zomasula tiyen timange Malawi wthu nsanje tileke osamangoti fotsek fotseki zinazilizonse. Zimbabwe ndi limodzi mwa dikolomwe is proud of their own products, amalawi kuziderera basi nsanje sikuti dziko likatukuka likhala la Peter ayi eni ake ndife amalawi Peter wangokhala chotengera basi
If only Malawians were proud to buy their own products. Simple things like milk we opt to buy foreign. Also let Malawian producers provide quality items that are attractive.
If the idea is well sold it is brilliant. The country needs to move into manufacturing etc.
what a joke!!!!
What do you actually manufacture to call “Malawian”? Fotsek, you are a useless President.
this is not a simple assignment man, it can be done by a senior person like president or VP
Count how many strategy papers Malawi has launched against how many of those are operationalized. In fact it’s an oxymoron to hear about buy Malawi initiative when the manufacturing sector is fast shrinking due to unfavorable economic landscape. Priorities upside-down. Shame!