President Lazarus Chakwera has expressed delight with a crop inspection report that Minister of Agriculture Lobin Lowe presented to him on Tuesday which has projected a bumper yield due to his Tonse Alliance government’s flagship Affordable Input Program (AIP). The report was presented at Kamuzu Palace in which the ministry beamed a video documentary depicting […]
President Lazarus Chakwera has said the Affordable Inputs Programme (AIP) for the 2020/21 growing season which his government launched to replace Farm Input Subsidy Programme (Fisp), has been a success. Fisp which was run by the previous regime was associated with a number of challenges, including fraud, corruption and logistical issues especially in hard-to-reach areas. […]
Ministry of Agriculture has announced that this year’s (2021/2022) Affordable Inputs Program (AIP) will commerce earlier than the 2020/2021 program started. Minister of Agriculture, Irrigation and Water Development, Lobin Lowe, said this on Monday in Parliament during his presentation of how the 2020/2021 AIP has fared. “Last season, we worked under pressure, but this season […]
Minister of Agriculture Lobin Lowe has labelled the 2020/21 Affordable Inputs Programme (AIP) a “success” and announced that it ends on 20th February 2021. Lowe speaking at a news conference held at Bingu International Convention Centre (BICC)in Lilongwe on Thursday said the programme made “ a landmark achievement of getting over 90 percent redemption rate. […]
World Bank has expressed reservations with the Tonse Alliance administration’s K60 billion Affordable Inputs Programme (AIP) , saying the flagship programme is not sustainable and advised the Malawi authorities to review it. Tonse Alliance administration targets 4.2 million smallholder farming households will each access two bags of fertiliser weighing 50 kilogramme (kg) each at K4 495 […]
State House Press Secretary, Brian Banda has said government would not renew contracts for the Affordable Input (AIP) contractors who have not performed according to government’s expectations. He made the remarks during a State House Weekly Brief at Kamuzu Palace in Lilongwe on Monday. “Ministry of Agriculture is accessing on the performance of the suppliers […]
Malawi Police say a 65-year-old woman who fell unconscious while standing in a queue for Affordable Inputs Programme(AIP) in Dedza district has died of hypertension. Dedza police deputy spokesperson Cassim Manda says an autopsy report has shown that she died of hypertension. The woman, Shyleen Kamtameni of Kumtelera village in the area of Traditional Authority […]
Only half of the targeted 3.6 million in the Affordable Input Program (AIP) have redeemed their cheap subsidized farm inputs with weeks before the program comes to an end. Minister of Agriculture Lobin Lowe has confirmed that the number of AIP beneficiaries who have redeemed inputs has now reached 51 percent. This has triggers fears […]
Irate villagers in Dedza on Thursday morning stormed the district commissioner’s office to express anger over the messy affordable input program (AIP). The peaceful villagers wondered why the government is taking long to address challenges facing the AIP. The villagers said they have spent over six days in selling depots to buy fertilizer but in […]
A woman has dropped dead on a queue as she struggled to buy the government subsidised farm input in Dedza. This was amid chaos aa the Affordable Input Program (AIP) is facing continued glitches. The deceased has been identified as Shyreen Kamtameni who dropped dead as she tried to buy fertilizer at Chimbiya depot in […]
Limbe Leaf Tobacco Company Limited (Limbe Leaf) Wednesday handed over a teachers house, office and a playground worth K20 million at Chikazimasika Primary School in rural Kasungu district. Speaking at the ceremony, Limbe Leaf Corporate Affairs Manager Leah Hez said the company is passionate about education in general and primary school education in particular. “A […]
Malawi Police in Chikwawa have intercepted two trucks carrying 913 bags of assorted fertiliser suspected to be for the Agricultural Input Programme (AIP) and deputy minister of lands Abida Mia, member of Parliament for Chikwawa Nkombezi in whose area the fertiliser is reported to have been loaded asked police not to release the trucks and […]
Leader of the Opposition in Parliament Kondwani Nankhumwa has dared President Lazarus Chakwera to fix the challenges farmers are currently facing in accessing and buying cheap fertilizer and seeds under the Affordable Input Programme (AIP). In a public statement issued on Friday the 27th of November, 2020, Nankhumwa , who is also Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) […]
President Lazarus Chakwera’s signature project, the Affordable Inputs Program (AIP) is likely to flop as almost half the number of suppliers contracted for distribution of the farm inputs have failed to meet their contractual obligations. This was revealed on Thursday when the parliamentary committee on Agriculture visited Farmers Fertilizer Revolving Fund of Malawi. The programme […]
President Lazarus Chakwera is this Thursday chairing a Cabinet meeting at Kamuzu Palace in Lilongwe to discuss among other issues the flopping of Affordable Inputs Programme (AIP) which has rendered farmers destitute with most having to queue for long hours without redeeming the inputs. Last week, President Lazarus Chakwera, in his weekly address, also expressed dissatisfaction […]
Parliamentary committee on Agriculture members on Tuesday quizzed ministry of Agriculture officials on glitches facing the affordable farm input program (AIP). A senior member of the committee has said the program is heading towards disaster. But ministry of Agriculture officials are upbeat the program will go on smoothly and all the beneficiaries will get the […]
President Lazarus Chakwera has conceded the Affordable Inputs Programme (AIP), which replaced Farm Input Subsidy Programme (Fisp), is a big flop as subsistence farmers are failing to access affordable subsidized farm inputs. In his weekly broadcast, Chakwera outlined three challenges facing to access low-cost inputs under the Tonse Alliance administration’s signature K160 billion AIP which he said are the logistical […]
The Ntchisi First Grade Magistrate has given a suspended sentence to man who was buying the affordable subsidized farm input through crooked means. The court gave an eight months suspended sentence to 34-year-old Chikumbutso Msandide for being found in possession of 36 National identity cards of different indivuduals which he wanted to use to buy […]