The controversy over ADMARC’s proposed K3 billion purchase of 100 tarpaulins has intensified, with critics accusing the state grain trader of invoking fears of maize losses to divert attention from questions over value for money. The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) has halted plans to award the contract, worth nearly K30 million per tarpaulin, while it investigates […]
The Agricultural Development and Marketing Corporation (Admarc) has brought back the post of deputy chief executive and appointed Aubrey Sumbuleta to it, three years after abolishing it to cut costs. The job is not on the corporation’s approved staff structure. Board chairperson Gray Nyandule Phiri told Mr Sumbuleta in a letter on 4 August 2026 […]
A power struggle is said to be tearing at the top of the Agricultural Development and Marketing Corporation (Admarc), with sources alleging that deputy Aubrey Sumbuleta is trying to push out Chief Executive Officer Ben Botolo. The claims come from unnamed sources described as high-level institutional insiders. None has been independently verified, and Mr Sumbuleta […]
The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) has halted a proposed K3 billion purchase of 100 tarpaulins by the Agricultural Development and Marketing Corporation (Admarc), as the public procurement regulator demands an explanation. In a restriction notice dated 9 October 2026, Acting ACB Director General Gabriel Chembezi directed Admarc not to proceed with the procurement, or award a […]
Malawi’s state grain marketing body is facing explosive questions tonight after shelling out a staggering K2.97 billion for just 100 tarpaulins — a jaw-dropping K29.67 million per tarpaulin — in a deal now engulfed by uncomfortable questions over political connections. Social and political commentator Stanley Kenani has blown the lid on the astonishing price tag, […]
The chief executive of cash-strapped state grain trader Admarc has spent about 10 months living in lodges at the corporation’s expense. Ben Botolo, a former secretary to the Treasury who was appointed in December last year, has yet to move into the official house at Mudi residential estate in Blantyre. He says it is not […]
A civil society watchdog has demanded an urgent forensic audit and criminal prosecutions after Malawi’s state grain trader admitted losing yet another huge stockpile of maize to spoilage — the latest in a mounting string of scandals plaguing the country’s strategic food reserves. The National Advocacy Platform (NAP) launched its blistering attack after Agriculture Development […]
State produce trader Agricultural Development and Marketing Corporation ( Admarc) has rebuffed agriculture commodity trader, AHL to retrench 40 percent of its staff as one way of restructuring. Lately, AHL has been sailing through turbelent financial waters. This led to the company failing to pay salaries of its workers for four months triggering waves of protests. […]
State produce marketer Agricultural Development and Marketing Corporation (Admarc) has opened its markets earlier than previous years, selling maize at K160 per kilogram. Admarc bought the maize at K200 per kilogram. An economic expert Professor Ben Kalua has described as a political move, the decision by Admarc to sell maize to Malawians at a loss. This […]
Financially struggling State produce marketer Agricultural Development and Marketing Corporation (Admarc) has given a bail out of K6 billion to cash strapped trader Auction Holdings Limited (AHL). The money will help AHL, a subsdiary of Admarc, pay salary arrears for its employees who had gone over four months without pay. The Auction Holdings Limited is experiencing […]
Ordinary Malawians are spending nights outside the State produce marketer Agricultural Development and Marketing Corporation (Admarc) depots to sell maize just days after Admarc started buying the commodity. This has worried the Parliamentary committee on Agriculture members who have since told Admarc officials to address the overcrowding of sellers in its depots. This followed a […]
The board of the State grain marketer, the Agricultural Development and Marketing Corporation (ADMARC), has suspended the institution’s acting Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Felix Jumbe, and two other top bosses from their positions. The two others are Harold Mwala was the Director of Finance and Garnet Gwembere who has been holding the position of the […]
Social commentators have accused the Malawi government of deliberately killing the once powerful grain trader, the Agricultural Development and Marketing Corporation (ADMARC), by withholding K23 billion it owes the parastatal institution as the politically connected Kokoliliko Holdings has set up cooperatives by the smallholder farmers to gain competitive advantage. Kokoliliko’s head Daud Suleman told Times TV […]
The Agricultural Development and Marketing Corporation (Admarc) says it needs K340 billion for recapitalisation to ensure seamless and profitable operations of the State produce trader. Admarc acting chief executive officer Felix Jumbe said this on Tuesday in Lilongwe when the parastatal’s management met parliamentary committees of, Agriculture and Food Security, Budget and Finance and Natural […]
An immediate forensic audit should be conducted at the Agricultural Development and Marketing Corporation (Admarc) , Auditor General has recommended after an audit report for the year ended June 2018 revealed that the State produce trader could not give evidence on the purchase of items amounting to K3 billion. The Auditor General Thomas Makiwa has […]
Centre for Social Concern (CfSC) has challenged government to consider ‘depoliticizing’ Agriculture Development and Marketing Corporation (Admarc) failing which the institution will continue serving the interests of politicians and their cronies at the expense of the larger good. The Centre’s executive director, Father James Ngahy observed that the grain marketor has the potential to improve […]
Agricultural Development Marketing Corporation (ADMARC) has assured farmers in the country that it will continue purchasing crop produce particularly maize, until the grain reserves reach the targeted 217, 000 metric tonnes by August. The assurance comes against the background that some farmers in the country are being denied access to sell their maize to ADMARC […]
Government has urged farmers to sell their agricultural commodities to Admarc [Agricultural Development and Marketing Corporation] at the minimum farm gate prices as one way of reaping optimum benefits from their hard work. Minister of Agriculture, Francis Kasaila said this in Lilongwe on Tuesday when he released the agricultural commodity farm gate marketing prices. He […]