Government on Friday, November 1 2019, launched the Malawi Cotton Development Strategy (MCDS) and the 2018/2019 to 2022/2023 Strategic Plan for the Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation and Water Development. Presiding over the official launch at Bingu International Convention Centre (BICC) in the capital, Lilongwe, Minister of Agriculture, Irrigation and Water Development, Kondwani Nankhumwa said the […]
Minister of Agriculture, Irrigation and Water Development Kondwani Nankhumwa has encouraged the media in Malawi to report responsibly in order for citizens to make informed decisions thus spurring rapid social and economic development. Nankhumwa, a former media practitioner turned politician, said the news organizations have capacity to make or break the country through its reporting […]
Despite achievements made in agriculture, Malawi’s food security has been affected by climate change manifested by droughts and floods, Minister of Agriculture, Irrigation and Water Development Kondwani Nankhumwa has said. He was addressing a Ministerial Session of the Third Session of the Third Ordinary Session of the African Union (AU) Specialized Technical Committee (STC) on […]
Governing Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) vice president for Southern Region, Kondwani Nankhumwa has said youths make up to one-fifth of the world population, according to the United Nations (UN) and, therefore, younger generation engagement in politics is needful for greater political, social and economic development of any country. Nankhumwa met DPP constituency and district youth […]
Malawi joined the world to commemorate the World Food Day and Africa Day for Food and Nutrition Security as the main commemoration event took place at Kankhomba Primary School Ground, T/A Bvumbwe’s in Thyolo on Wednesday, October 16 2019. The theme of the celebrations was “Our actions are our future; Healthy Diets for a Zero […]
President Peter Mutharika is hugely indebted to the people of Phalombe for overwhelmingly voting for him in the May 21 presidential elections, which helped usher him back to power, governing Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Vice President (South) Kondwani Nankhumwa has said. He was speaking at Migowi Primary School ground in Phalombe on Tuesday, October 15, […]
Minister of Agriculture, Irrigation and Water Development, Kondwani Nankhumwa, has said government puts household and national food security on top of its development agenda that is why it introduced the Farm Input Subsidy Programme (FISP) in 2005/06 season and on Tuesday launched the 2019/20 FISP wth a promise of an organised season this year. Nankhumwa […]
Minister of Agriculture, Irrigation and Water Development, Kondwani Nankhumwa says at least 900000 smallholder farmers from 28 districts will benefit from this year’s Farm Input Subsidy Programme (FISP). The minister said this during a press briefing on Monday in Blantyre where he said 90,000 metric tonnes (MT) of fertilizer will be accessed this year of […]
The Malawi government will on Tuesday October 15, 2019 officially launch the 2019-2020 Farm Inputs Subsidy Programme (FISP) as Minister of Agriculture, Irrigation and Water Development Kondwani Nankhumwa will preside over the event, which will be held in Migowi, Phalombe. Briefing reporters at Sunbird Mount Soche in Blantyre on Monday on the FISP implementation arrangements […]
Leader of Government Business in Parliament Kondwani Nankhumwa has said that Malawi ought to find means of looking after the welfare of former Members of Parliament (MPs) in recognition of their contribution to the development of the country. Nankhumwa made the proposal when he delivered his ‘discontinuance speech’ in Parliament on Friday, October 11, 2019 […]
Leader of the House Kondwani Nankhumwa has ruled out government plans to oust Speaker Catherane Gotani Hara, saying the issue has never been discussed. Nankhumwa said this on Wednesday in parliament when he gave a statement to the House on his controversial letter to Hara in which he described her as arrogant and biased towards […]
Malawi Parliament’s Business Committee has agreed that Leader of the House Kondwani Nankhumwa should apologise to Speaker Catherane Gotani Hara over a letter which describes Hara as arrogant and biased towards the opposition. Parliament’s Business Committee is the political leadership of the 193-strong House which met on Tuesday following a commotion caused by opposition legislators […]
Malawi Parliament was suspended in the morning of Tuesday for 30 minutes following a commotion which erupted after opposition legislators protested against Leader of the House Kondwani Nankhumwa’s letter to Speaker Catherine Gotani Hara. In the letter, Nankhumwa is accusing Gotani Hara of arrogance and bias towards the Malawi Congress Party (MCP), the party that […]
The Office of Speaker of Parliament demands that the one occupying it must lose their ‘partisan robes’ and discharge their duties based on competence and above-board integrity, Leader of Government Business in Malawi Parliament, Kondwani Nankhumwa has told Speaker of Parliament, Catherine Gotani Hara. Nankhumwa says in a letter to the Speaker that he is […]
Opposition member of parliament on Thursday forced Agriculture, Irrigation and Water Development minister Kondwani Nankhumwa to explain how 7 000 tonnes of maize got rotten when the grain was in Agricultural Development and Marketing Corporation (Admarc) silos. Lilongwe city south east MP Ulemu Msungama (MCP) asked Nankhumwa where the maize is kept and how it […]
Nkhata Bay South legislator Ken Zikhale Ng’oma (Malawi Congress Party-MCP) has implicated Minister of Agriculture, Irrigation and Water Development Kondwani Nankhumwa and deputy minister of defence Chipiliro Mpinganjira as architects of the violence which Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) cadets unleashed to thwart a planned Human Rights Defenders Coalition (HRDC) march in Blantyre on Wednesday. Zikhale […]
Malawi too would like to continue benefiting from tobacco as a legal commodity while at the same time protecting public health, Minister of Agriculture, Irrigation and Water Development, Kondwani Nankhumwa has said. He was officially opening the Tobacco Coalition (T5) Workshop at Ufulu Gardens Hotel in the capital city, Lilongwe on Thursday, September 26, 2019. […]
Government is encouraging all farmer organizations in Malawi to adopt the business approach to agriculture through, among others, organising farmers around ‘cooperatives’, which could contribute sustainably towards agriculture commercialisation, Agriculture Irrigation and Water Development Minister, Kondwani Nankhumwa has said. Nankhumwa said this in Blantyre on Wednesday, September 26 2019, when he officially opened the 16th National Agriculture […]