Malawi’s 2026 Tobacco Marketing Season has fetched US$282.5 million from 142.4 million kilogrammes sold over the first 19 weeks of trading, according to the Tobacco Commission (TC). Malawi’s 2026 Tobacco Marketing Season has fetched approximately K494 billion (US$282.5 million) from 142.4 million kilogrammes sold over the first 19 weeks of trading, according to the Tobacco […]
Malawi’s agriculture sector is facing a mounting crisis, with damning new figures revealing the country’s export base has collapsed by 31 percent in less than a decade, as Minister of Agriculture, Irrigation and Water Development Roza Mbilizi issued a stark call for urgent transformation. Speaking at the official opening of the three-day 22nd National Agriculture […]
The US government which suspended all tobacco imports from Malawi announced on Monday that it has ‘modified an existing Withhold Release Order on imports of tobacco from Malawi’. In November 2019, the US government announced that it had suspended all imports of tobacco from Malawi over child labour allegations. The ban followed the news followed […]
“The Malawi economy can do away with its reliance on tobacco.” There is need for Malawi to seriously reform its agricultural industry because there is no future for the dying gold leaf, tobacco, Malawi President Lazarus Chakwera has said. Chakwera made the remarks Wednesday as he delivered a State of the Nation Address (SONA) at […]