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What matters is productivity. Yes, the country is allocating more resources to Agriculture but how productive are these resources? No wonder the country is still importing maize amidst huge investments in the agricultural sector,
These hardships shall come to an end if measures are to be tightened.
Malawi’s bulk of expenditure on agriculture is on the Farm Input Subsidy Program, which is not a worthwhile agricultural investment at all. If it was effective, why should we be talking of looming hunger in the country? Yes, the country may be allocating more than 10% of its national budget to agriculture, but its just to finance consumption (i.e. produce maize), which it is even failing to produce due to over-reliance on rain-fed agriculture. So, for me, there is nothing worth of praise here.
What’s the benefit when inflation digits can’t be nursed? And how will that heal our ailing economy?
ndiye mumvere kudzitamandira kokhako awathiramo.mayoooo.alomwe.