President Joyce Banda has called on Malawians to embrace drip irrigation describing it as one of the most efficient agriculture practices which have numerous advantages over other practices. Speaking during the inauguration ceremony of the Advanced Agro technology for Sustainable Development project at the Natural Resources College in the Area of Traditional Authority Malili in […]
Malawi Government has sent 32 students from Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources (LUANAR) to Israel under its Drip Irrigation Project as one way of implementing Presidential Initiative on Poverty and Hunger Reduction (PIPaHR). PIPaHR National Coordinator, Flora Kaluwile, told journalists on Monday that the agreement has come at a right when Malawi considers […]
Malawi’s Minister of Water Development and Irrigation Brown Mpinganjira on Wednesday launched the African Development Bank (AfDB) funded Small scale Irrigation and Value Addition Project (Sivap) in Machinga. Under the project Zumulu Irrigation Scheme alongside other schemes in four other districts will be rehabilitated to improve crop production and farm income among beneficiaries. Speaking at Chibwana Village, […]
Members of Ndau Irrigation Scheme in Mzimba district have asked government to complete the irrigation project launched in 2008 as part of the greenbelt initiative saying the contractor abandoned it in 2009 after six months. The Scheme’s President Austin Nyondo told Malawi’s Vice President Khumbo Kachali during his tour of the scheme on Tuesday that the contractor […]