Raiply Malawi says it does not owe Timber Millers Union anything and has challenged the union to bring evidence of the company’s alleged theft of 2, 000 hectares of blue gum trees in Viphya Plantation. On Tuesday, last week, the millers held demonstrations to force Raiply to return the 2,000 hectares of trees they said […]
Some itinerant licensed loggers have started encroaching into the 20,000 hectares forestry plantation which Raiply owns under an exclusive 15 year concessionary agreement after almost depleting the estimated other 33,000 hectares held for Malawian loggers for sustainable harvesting. The Viphya’s 53-501 hectare man-made plantation, the once largest in Southern Africa, which began in the 1950s […]