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End of Malawi importation of South Afrrica horticultural produce: Harvest of innosselia-greenbelt KIA greenhouses begin

By Nyasa Times Reporter

Harvesting and selling of produce from Inosselia Agro and Green Belt Authority (GBA) greenhouse-based vegetable farm at Kamuzu International Airport (KIA) in Lilongwe, is starting this week–finally ending Malawi’s reliance on horticultural produce imported from South Africa. Tal Amit–an Israeli agronomist who is the manager at the farm–disclosed this when some top government officials led […]

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Malawi govt appoints Nyamilandu as Greenbelt Authority CEO

By Nyasa Times Reporter

Government has appointed Football Association of Malawi (FAM) president Dr MacMillan Walter Nyamilandu  as  chief executive officer for Greenbelt Authority. Office of the President and Cabinet says the appointment is with immediate effect. He replaces Dr Henrie Njoloma whose contract expired. In his last interview at the authority, Njoloma told the Malawi News Agency that […]

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Inosselia-Greenbelt KIA greenhouse: Training ground for farmers to revolutionalize horticulture in Malawi

By Nyasa Times Reporter

Malawians employed to work at the greenhouse vegetable farm at Kamuzu International Airport (KIA) in Lilongwe, are building their professional capacities and acquiring high-technological skills of modern farm operations and management. They are expected to share with scores of smallholder farmers in order to generate interest for large scale and more profitable horticultural farming in […]

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Malawi developing largest greenhouse vegetable farm in SADC 

By Nyasa Times Reporter

A multibillion kwacha greenhouse-based vegetable farm is being developed at Kamuzu International Airport in Lilongwe to provide a wide range of high quality vegetables to Malawi and will reduce the country’s heavy reliance on imported horticultural produce from South Africa. There will be 16 hectors of green houses on 30 hectors of land which has […]

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Malawi to start exporting cotton-made linen – Greenbelt Authority

By Nyasa Times Reporter

Apart from emphasising on development of irrigated agriculture and setting up irrigation schemes, the Greenbelt Authority is geared to go into the international market by exporting cotton-made linen. Greenbelt Authority Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Henrie Njoloma said the authority is looking at value addition facilities which will see exporting of cotton linen materialising. He emphasised […]

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