Chakwera welcomes South African farmers to invest in Malawi: Kokoliliko gets mega farms
President Lazarus Chakwera has offered hope to South African farmers, particularly white Afrikaans – who are facing horrific circumstances of land redistribution and violence, saying they will be welcomed to invest in Malawi to help boost the country’ agriculture-economy.
Chakwera welcomes the South African farmers during a live virtual interview held at Kamuzu Palace in Lilongwe and hosted by Invest Africa, a leading pan-African business platform that promotes trade and investment in Africa.
He was responding to a question by the hosts, who asked him: “Malawi is perhaps best known for its agriculture. What type of opportunities are there for farmers and will you, for example welcome farmers from South Africa who are looking to expand, or even move out of South Africa to Malawi?”
The Malawi leader said South African farmers would be welcomed to invest in the country “and help boost the country’s agriculture sector.”
Chakwera said his administration is pursuing policies that will attract foreign direct investment (FDI) into the country to help advance efforts to get Malawi out of poverty.
The President said the agriculture sector also presents vast opportunities for investors ranging from fertiliser production, mega farming value-addition and storage facilities for agriculture produce.
Meanwhile, Kokoliliko Holdings LTD (KH), which is opening its operations this Tuesday September 1, has operational interests in agriculture to compliment the government’s food security and 1 million job creations agenda.
According to Malawi Congress Party (MCP) official behind Kokoliliko, Daud Suleman, the KH Limited has ventured into the agriculture sector through a mega farm.
He disclosed that a 500ha of land has been secured in the central region for farming and another 300ha of land has already been contracted to seed multiplication.
“Ground preparation works are under way,” said Suleman.
Kokoliliko has also embarked on rehabilitating three farm training institutes in Mzimba, Kasungu and Mulanje, to be used for Agribusiness vocational training for youth and women in the value chain.
According to Suleman, Kokoliliko will also have an initiative to allow anyone interested in farming to conduct business through its Agriculture clubs.
“Ordinary citizens pull funds together to enable an investment in an Agri area. The day to day management will be outsourced to the Agri clubs. We will employ cutting engage technology to ensure both the investor is secured and the farmers get value for money on their efforts,” said Suleman.
Kokoliko Holdings appointed Dan Makata as it board chairperson.
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You better not sale malawi now brother reverend
Azungu Ali NDI kuthekela kokonza dziko mu zambiri even zintchito mdziko zimapezeka. Ku south Africa chifukwa ndi mixture ya azungu NDI akuda ma foreigners NDI enidziko akuda amapezako ntchito, ku Zimbabwe they chased white people awo anaononga dziko from 2000-mpaka lero Zim ili pa umphawi wadzaoneni. Angeleziwa Ali nako kuthekela kotukula dziko komanso alendo amadzetsa Chuma mdziko pamene eniakenso akuda apatsidwe Mbali yawo.
Mr President,
You dont have to bring south Africans to farm in our beautiful and peaceful country. You have a lot of human capital which, if put to good use, can transform the agriculture sector. Bring deliberate policies that will avoid importation of agricultural products which can be produced within the country.
If South Africa has rejected these farmers, do you think Malawi has vast land for foreigners? I chose to differ with you.
Malawi will be developed by Malawians, and not illconceived rejected foreigners.
That’s right G
Kokoliko holding limited is now on agriculture, and last time the story was to install IT platforms in all schools.
What an idiotic decision… Why not empower Malawians to do that… Invest in your own people for God’s sake
Idiot to the idiot’s
PASTOR CHAKWERA ,MR PRESIDENT EXPECT BLOODSHED ON YOUR HANDS IF YOU LET THEM TAKE OUR LAND.STICK ON INVESTMENT ITS A GOOD IDEA, AMEND YOUR RULES ON THIS MATTER.
WE HAVE GOOD EXAMPLE IN RSA & ZIMBABWE.I THINK WE CAN LEARN FROM THEM.,
For the fact of investing its a good idea and Mr President DONT EVER THINK OF SELLING THEM FARMS OR LAND.It will be a war in the near future mark my words.
I said it before. This so called ” man of god” is pro foreigner. pro sale the country to the highest bidder. That is why he can even offer some bogus rejects from South Africa to come and farm in Malawi. Instead of going to teach some Malawians on how to farm and create food security. All I can say is Malawians wake up. In 56 years if you can’t grow your own. Its even disgusting that this so called leader or president has not thought or being ill advised to get South African farmers when already in South Africa these farmers grow the food and import the stuff to Europe or whatever cave they come from while black south africans die of starvation . Wake up. No sky fairy is coming to save you no White man is coming to save you. And certainly this person that Malawians have banked on called Lazrus Chakwera is not for you . WAKEUP. Do for yourself. No mzungu is coming to save you. No fake american accent speaking president is going to sell you off. Enough said
Why should we invite white South Africans to come invest in Malawi? Bunda College of Agriculture, now LUANAR, has been producing hundreds of agriculturists yearly since it was established. Where do all the graduates go?
During the Bingu regime, I remember one named Lobin Lowe, the present Minister of Agriculture and a professional agriculturalist himself, gave a lengthy interview on TV strongly espousing the fact that Malawi has got experts in all fields of agriculture, viz, agricultural economics, agricultural engineering, agronomy, horticulture, irrigation, etc, that we don’t need foreign experts. What we need are financial resources, and material resources like machinery.
In brief, Malawi needs financial and material resources. The human resources are already in abundance. Hon Lowe, I thought that was a brilliant exposition back then on telly. Have you now changed your tune? Are you the one who advised Dr Chakwera to consider importing foreign farmers? And white South Africans at that?
I would like to know is kokoliko a public organisation or what? What is it’s interest in govt training colleges, who funds it ? Chakwera becareful, we have no time on such debate
SKC this nonsense of Kokoliko must be stopped. We only voted for this man of darkness and death because of you. We trusted you and still do but Kokoliko is cause of worry and fear to us.
I am with you 100%.
Do not say we,, we with who? You think Chilima would be near to win election? You are just stupid, we know you are Cadets in Chilima, bit you will not win this game guys! Your time is gone and you will not rule again this Country! Ati we voted Chakwera because of Chilima?????? Are you crazy? Go to hell my friend! This is new Malawi with new people and new ideas! Kokoliko kudzabweletsa nkhani ya ulimi! Enaso kudzabwela from South Africa! Oh this is good news! Bwelani mwina enanu mudzapeze chochita mmalo mogwira ntchito ya ma comment Pano! Hahahahahahahaha osafuna akhale.
If we cant do farming then what can we really do? Miseche, weddings and chigololo. Who gets the proceeds of the farming? Who gets the forex? Will they rent or buy the farms. Very poor strategic thinking
Go to chanco and study how economics work.
Mr Talk Talk Chakwera please stop this nosence.
kod Amalawiongat akanika zak zonsez ndiy akwanits lelo mwaiwal kt kul achina muli achipo chiyan ? itanan ena akuthandizen
who is the current owner of the 3 training institutes in Mzimba? How have they ended up under kokoliko
All those posting negative comments here where have you been all this time?? why havent you invested in your country, what have you been waiting for??? now the government is inviting investors inu ndiye poko-poko pa soul media
Bra theres nothing wrong with investment but since malawi is battling already financialy it will prompt selling of the land which will bring BLOOD SHED ON OUR LAND.And now we can argue until death is on our doorstep in our villages.
We Malawians Capable
What were we Malawians Doing 56 Years of Indepence 5
What we Malawians Have Achieved Corrupt Politicians and False Promisses by Corrupt leaders of our Country
We do not even have Electricity throughout our Country and infrastructure is still very poor
Are we Malawians really Capable of Doing things for our Country of we are good at only putting money in our pockets only
100% correct. Now stealing through Kokoliko
Why are these farmers chased in South Africa? Will Malawians be able to compete with these whites? What we need are manufacturing companies and not farmers. We need people who will be buying our farm produce. Otherwise, thumbs down Mr President. When we say Malawians need jobs its not what you are doing Mr President. We don’t want atsamunda to come back. Watch out.
Manufacturing companies!? When we don’t even have reliable electricity how then can we have manufacturers. Poor quality of service in most government sectors, non reliable water supply, poor infrastructure and you want manufacturers to come in. It’s like saying hi welcome to my 5 star hotel and all they see is a hut!
South African white farmers should not bring apartheid and greed to Malawi. They will be tenants and should not own land. If these conditions are met, then they are most welcome.
Slave mentality no belief in one self as Africans we have to stop believing in white people we are just as capable as them we have to develop our self not relying on whites, this particular of whites are the ones who have no respect for black people they are all for the better of themselves , will not end well for Malawi wake up Chakwela with all that English still got the slavery mentality
Of course it never ends well! It never ended well for zimbabwe and now look at them Its not about believing in white slave mentality but rather changing our mindset from “how can I steal?” to “how can I help my country be better?”
some have already enslaved themselves with accents even though they have never even spent more than 5 years in the countries of those who mentally colonised them as adults
Indigenous Malawians do not need foreigners white or brown or yellow or even black to teach them farming. There is barely enough land for us Malawians to farm, and President Talk Talk Chakerwa is now giving away our land. No Bwana Chakwera Malawi is for Malawians. Liberate us do not enslave us again. No to Kaporo. We want SKC to rule not you Bwana Give Away Chakwera bewitched by Kokoliko who you serve not us.
Bwana Chakwera enough is enough! Stop this nonsense of virtual online conferences. Instead explain to us Malawians how you will stop corruption and develop our country. You were not elected by the British or South Africans but by us Malawians. Reach out to us and not those who seek to exploit us. And Kokoliko is unacceptable and we say NO NO NO
Lilongwe, Kasungu and Dedza has idle land after Chamwavi and Press Agriculture collapsed during the notorious UDF government. We indeed need to revitalize agriculture. It was the largest employer. Mzungu has proven to be serious with agriculture. Muluzi and APM were not serious with the running of government. The were destructive as locusts.
Ndi ulimi omwe kufuna ma investors aku RSA.zinazi muzifunsa aMalawi eni ake azipanga manganizo a Mr President osamangopanga panokha kuti muli pampando mudzaononga zinthu.osaitana ma investors opanga zithu zoti aMalawi sangapange bwanji. Ku RSA sakuwafuna chifukwa chani kalipo kalipo. Zizavuta kuwachotsa lwake kutsongoloko izi.
I don’t think it’s a good idea the farmers in South Africa South Africa not pay their workers well at all, their workers live in abject poverty, they I’ll treat them and work them like slaves while they themselves live in luxury so i say know let us share ideas may be with them and let us learn how to do these kinds of farming, big farming lets invest in ourselves.
Where is my comment. Ufulu of expression!
Mmmmh, a Chakwera you could leave agriculture part for Malawian people can invest on other things not Agricultural. Do you know what is happening in South Black people don’t to anything about agriculture only taking their small money to gave back to white. Don’t change the way how people rather motivate them gave them loan for families make farmers implement and tools cheaper nd teach them good new ways of doing things. Learn from China. Allow other types of investors not what Malawian already now.
South Africans are welcome but they are not own any land. We already have Asians who have looted our land through corruption and we do not need more races to deal with. Already the ministry is failing to get accountability from these owners and more will lead to more corruption.
Azungu south africa akuthamangitsidwa muzifunse kuti why? Kodi kunomo chimativuta ndichani, ndichani chomwe chingativute kumalima patokha? Maganizo obweletsa azungu kuno for farming ndiopoila hevy the small scale farming will be dead
It’s high time Africans learn to believe in themselves this kind of belief of a white man is the reason we are poor like we are , white pro only serve their interest and it will end bad for Malawi, please don’t let them come better if we exchange ideas
This is crazy! Why not empower Malawians to do this? Can’t we learn from what happened in Zimbabwe? Eish !!
Tonse acquires mega farm???? Ok ok
If you want to be open then be fully transparent not provide half cooked information which will only raise more questions.
How have you gotten 800 hectares of land? Who have you bought it from? If it has just been handed to you by your friends at the Ministry, what are the terms of the lease etc…How many people can access 800 hectares just like that?
Who is funding this project? Let us know so that we appreciate the characters behind this ambitious venture or should i say adventure.
Well said….
Issue yobweletsa ma south african farmers to malawi ndiyopusa kwambiri. don’t you dare. we have many capable malawians and local companies that can venture into that. contract them as advisors if you want, but don’t give them our land
What are they doing? Malawians tulo too much. We have been failing all along. Let those with expertise come and do the job. Inu kulira daily no phindu. Who told u that kulira will help you.
Many capable Malawians!???? What have “many capable Malawians” have to show since 1964? They only thing “capable Malawians” have shown is how to steal with their so called mwenyes and also to top it up you “capable Malawians” just sat and watched your politicians rip you apart. So pardon my anger but we now live in a globalisational world where we work together and learn from others who actually have proven that they are capable! Besides tobbaco what else have we to show that we are capable!? With that mindset we will never learn and move forward! Yes let them come and invest here but we should put our terms and conditions to protect our farmers but also our farmers should learn new technologies and methods on agriculture otherwise we shall be left behind like how we have been for the last 56 years!
So True In one organisation of an asian malawiams have been caught stealing big time in millions 6 different occassions 9 Malawians have been arrested from this company one person even working there for over 30 years. Thats what most malawians do as they see their fellow malawians who steal millions are arrested
and next day they are granted bail and walking the streets with head high
ndi mmalawi uti waletsedwa kupanga invest???? u cadet basi nde mutivute nawo pano?? if u r a malawian and u want to invest in agri business pangani invest nobody will stop.
Let them come over as long as they’re NOT given the land to own but rather just rent/lease.
Ok???? Well done guys that is a great move yo the tight direction. People should get down to work. We are waiting to see what Chilima has got up his sleeves. Other than that all the best Tonse Alliance. Viva Tonse Alliance Viva.
Sounds great on paper asking white South Africa Farmers to move and invest in Malawi but the reality is Malawi has the lowest land area of all Southern African Countries with highest population among Zambia, Tanzania, Mozembique, Zimbabwe to restrict further land to Malawians will only in the future harm Malawi. Agriculture Education and reduced pricing of fertiliser will ultimately be the most beneficial.
Well starting Mr Presdent. Proud of you My President, let Malawi become a true Malawi for all
Let Malawi be developed by Malawians. This foreign direct investment thing is another form of colonization. We have everything we need to develop our land we just have to put our heads together. Why are the whites leaving South-Africa? Please answer this question. They will bring the same problems that they created in South-Africa here.
Iwe mandimba ndikupangatu xeno
Inviting South African farmers is a good idea but be careful. Just bare in mind that when Malawians don’t own the land, they become tenants in their own country.
So Kokoliliko Ltd is grabbing government assets like the training institutes?
someone please explain what this Kokoliko is. Has it bought these farms. Is it leasing these farms. Who owns it. Now that Kokoliko is working on the mega farms will government still pursue SKCs mega farm project. Too many questions