Email a copy of 'Minister promotes 'Best Buy Malawi' campaign, taste for imports hurting economy' to a friend
Loading ... Loading ... Loading ... Loading ... Loading ...
Loading ...
Email a copy of 'Minister promotes 'Best Buy Malawi' campaign, taste for imports hurting economy' to a friend
Loading ...
Uranium miner Paladin has hit back at French nuclear physicist Bruno Chareyron who after visiting the Kayerekera Mine in the...
this is another fucked up minister. by just saying that without changing policies on the ground do u think it will change anything?
Quality and pricing are major disappointments for Malawian businesses and products. You must begin from there with the campaign, otherwise we the consumers have no problem to support it.
This campaign does not address the underlying issues that make people prefer buying stuff from abroad. At least conduct a study to determine what’s really at stake than just trying to shove products down the throats of consumers. It doesn’t work that way!
The Minister is displaying shallow thinking. What drives up the import bill are strategic products which we do not manufacture here such as fuel, fertilizer, pharmaceuticais and machinery including motor vehicles. Even the cheapest soaps which are made locally rely on imported raw materials. As for tomatoes I am amazed that the Minister does not know that Malawian suppliers often fail to fulfull whole orders leaving traders such as shoprite with shortages. The Minister is being superficial and shows a worrying deficiency of original and innovative thinking.
B4 best buy Malawian should be best created by Malawian and the prices should be fair atleast and availability should also be the concern otherwise idont see the reason to import tomatoes
You should start with a campaign called produce quality products then we can start buying. You can’t compare universal crisp with lays or simba, Malawi lifebuoy with Southafrican lifebuoy, Malawi juices with Akunja. Kuno kuyambira mabotolo a majuice ndionyasa. Compare and contrast.. Packaging nde zero attraction aliyense amauser same ugly bottles for juice, peanut butter or honey, soya piece,glycerine.
The main culprit is Electricity challenges. Daily power interruptions and delays to supply power are unbearable! I invested K15m in 2008 in a project of which I paid K6m to Escom and spent K9m on buildings and machinery in a remote area in Mchinji. It took 4years for them to instal electrical line and another 1 1/2 years for them to give me power. This supply of power has never been a smooth flow till today as there arecdaily technical problems affecting production. I have lost my money completely and would rather import already manufactured goods than investing in local… Read more »