The country’s official grain marketer, Agriculture Development and Marketing Corporation (ADMARC) needs close to 75,000 metric tons (mt) of maize between now and the next harvest to be sold countrywide if the effects of hunger are to be cushioned. In its National Food Security Forecast report for April, 2012 to March 2013, the Malawi Vulnerability […]
Friend indeed! Britain is the first donor to contribute $4.7 million (2.9 million pounds) to Malawi for food aid as the country needs $48 million to feed than 1.6 million people face food shortage. The UN’s World Food Programme said Tuesday about 11 percent of Malawi’s population who will face hunger due to bad crops and […]
Villagers in Malawi’s border district of Mchinji have killed in an uncannily manner a senior citizen and one of their own after they allegedly caught him stealing maize. Almost certainly, the deceased, 65-year-old Tasiyano Agripa, met his fate due to food deficit. The old man died the most heartrending way after he was stoned until he […]
Any Malawian asked to name the one thing that, whatever the case, should always be available, would name food. And in Malawi, food is synonymous with nsima to get which, one must have maize. We could encourage our people to diversify eating habits, or to experiment with this and that, or we could even bring […]
Malawi has suspended maize exports to build national reserves in the face of a looming shortage, marking a surprise twist for a country that has served as Africa’s model for attaining food security. The move taken by the country’s ministry in charge of Commerce and Industry nullifies all export licences that allowed grain traders to […]
Malawi’s Local Government and Rural Development Minister Henry Mussa admitted Tuesday that its grain marketor, ADMARC, has no maize to sell the poor populace. His confession comes a few days after Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Irrigation Kingsley Namakhwa publicly told the nation ADMARC was stocking enough of the staple grain to feed the nation […]
Worried with growing reports that Malawi has run out of maize, Parliamentary Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources plans to physically inspect all the country’s grain reserves to assess the stock. The development comes amid reports that the country will not manage to feed itself up to next harvest because the red light has already […]
The Malawi governments says it belives the recent price increase of the country’s staple food, maize by 50 per cent would save the poor from exploitation of parallel market traders. Deputy Minister of Agriculture Kingsley Namakhwa said this when he granted an interview to the press in the capital city Lilongwe on why state-owned produce […]
Malawians will keep on digging deep in their pockets as the cost of maize meal, a staple foodstuff, has gone up 50 percent margin, “With immediate effect”, a bag of 50 Kilogramme of maize will now sale at K3, 000, from K2, 000, according to Agriculture Development and Marketing Corporation (Admarc) spokesperson Agnes Chikoko. Recently, […]
Malawi expects normal-to-above normal rainfall in the 2011/12 harvesting season but the first crucial phase of planting could be beset by dry spells, a government forecast showed on Monday. “Sporadic dry spells are likely to occur in the first half of the rainy season. Therefore, farmers are advised to plant drought-resistant crops, in addition to […]
Malawi has started selling much-needed maize to South Sudan and also exporting some to Zimbabwe and Kenya despites reports that about 10 districts in the country will face starvation due to dry spells. South Sudan Minister of Investment, Commerce and Industry, Garanga Diig Akuong confirmed that they are importing maize from Malawi to pre-empt a […]