Mphatso Nkhoma – Nyasa Times No room to dose any longer, government has assured Malawians that it is doing everything possible to ensure that no Malawian dies due to hunger in the 2016/2017 agricultural production year, as Minister of Agriculture, Irrigation and Water Development, George Chaponda said 1,290,000 metric tonnes is needed to avert worsening […]
An agricultural expert has told Malawian farmers to consider crop diversification in view of the El Nino powered weather which is causing drought in the south and heavy rains in the north. Trevor Mataya, Farm Service National Coordinator for Nasfam said in view of the unpredictable weather patterns, his organization is training 165, 000 farmers […]
Malawi could register more disturbing hunger scenarios this year as subsistence farmers in some part of the country have started selling their maize at incredibly lower prices as most ADMARC depots have no cash, Nyasa Times can reveal. Government recently decreed that maize should be sold at a minimum price of K160 per kilogram for […]
More Malawians will this year relief food than initially thought as the number of hunger stricken Malawians has jumped from 2.8 million to 8.2 million but the government says it is already working on the figure. Agriculture minister George Chaponda told a meeting of stakeholders on Wednesday in Lilongwe that a new survey has now […]
President Arthur Peter Mutharika has asked Malawians not to sell their harvest to vendors at a time when the country is experiencing another spell of food shortage, a situation that has forced government to declare a state of national disaster. In a statement posted on his official Facebook page on Wednesday, President Mutharika discouraged those […]
Minister of Agriculture, Irrigation and Water Development Dr. George Chaponda has announced that government has initiated short, medium and long term measures to reverse the loaming food security crisis in the country. Chaponda told journalists in Lilongwe on Friday that measures are being taken to offset the current food gap and to avoid the recurrence […]
Malawi Police in Nsanje have arrested a 48 year old Admarc guard at Mbenje for killing a community policing official following a fracas that erupted as people jostled to buy maize. Nsanje Police Station officer in charge Kelby Kaunga said the guard, Anderson Kantepa has since been charged with negligence after he forgot to close […]
One person who was called in to quell a fracas fuelled by lack of maize at Mbenje Admarc depot in Nsanje was on Monday accidentally killed by a market official who accidently triggered a gun he was holding after he was floored and tramped upon by clients. Police in Nsanje identified the deceased as Wyson […]
President Peter Mutharika has blasted leader of opposition Lazarus Chakwera as “irresponsible” and reassured Malawians that no one will die of hunger this year although hunger is expected to be worse than last year, saying his government will go as far as Mexico to buy the staple food. Speaking at Kamuzu Palace recently, Mutharika said […]
Some Malawian ‘movers and shakers’ have said government should remove all obstacles for Prophet Shepherd Bushiri of the Enlightened Christian Gathering (ECG) to continue his charity initiative under ‘Prophetic Channel Aid’ as drought his nation has been declared a national disaster. President Peter Mutharika declared a state of national disaster due to food shortages caused by a severe drought […]
Civil Society Agriculture Network (Cisanet) has commended the Agricultural Development and Marketing Corporation (Admarc) for setting aside funds for the procurement of 150,000 metric tonnes of maize locally, saying the move will save the country the much needed forex. Malawi is about to experience food drought as a result of the dry spell which weather […]
Members of the St. Peter’s Anglican Church in England on Sunday donated maize to 100 needy families in the area of Senior Group Village Headman Mnyanja in Kasungu. The donation comes three weeks after Mana reported food crisis in the area following a dry spell that destroyed maize and other crops. Speaking on behalf of […]
Ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) youths, under the banner of Blue League, on Monday donated over 300 bags of maize to food insecure families in Tengani village, Traditional Authority (T/A) Tengani in Nsanje district. DPP Blue League is a group comprising of youths of all professions who are spread across the country with an aim […]
About 90 percent of the population in Mangochi North (Makanjira) constituency is on the verge of experiencing food shortage due to dry spell which has already affected maize and rice fields. Malawi is about to experience food drought as a result of the dry spell which weather experts said has been caused by the El […]
Mosanto Malawi has encouraged farmers in the country to plant hybrid maize seeds as they are resilient to unfavorable weather conditions and would enable them yield more for both domestic and commercial purposes. The company’s Sales and Marketing officer for the south, Denis Kachikho made the call during a field day visit Chiradzulu, Zomba and […]
Spurred by acute hunger ongoing in Malawi, UK based TV talk-show host and philanthropist, Pauline Long has donated maize to hunger-stricken southern African nation to assist 100 families in Mzimba as 2.8 million famished Malawians are in dire need of humanitarian food assistance. Long, a multi-award media guru and entrepreneur who is listed on Black Women in Europe […]
Malawian Peter Mutharika on Monday afternoon gave out statistics to show the country has over 60 000 metric tonnes of maize in Admarc depots, asking Malawians not to panic. Speaking at a special address to the nation on state controlled Malawi Broadcasting Corporation (MBC) just a day after Catholic bishops accused the government of laisez […]
Minister of Agriculture Allan Chiyembekeza has been called to abandon his “stubborn refusal” to take advice from Parliamentary Committee on Agriculture. Chairperson of the Parliamentary Committee on Agriculture, Felix Jumbe, said Chiyembekeza is displaying a “stubborn” altitude not to take advise form his committee. “If only the Ministry of Agriculture had adopted the recommendations that our committee […]