Agriculture Minister Roza Fatchi Mbilizi’s office has moved to counter accusations of corrupt dealings in Malawi’s fertiliser procurement system, with her team alleging that a smear campaign is being orchestrated by trading firms with a vested interest in the sector. According to the minister’s team, Export Trading Limited and Farmers World Limited are behind efforts […]
Sameer Suleman wrote to fertiliser fund boss demanding answers over £multimillion Nyasa Tobacco contract, as document surfaces raising fresh conflict of interest concerns A leaked letter written by Speaker of the National Assembly Sameer Suleman has thrust him into the centre of a growing controversy, after the confidential document revealed he ordered the constitution of […]
It was yet another busy schedule for Agriculture, Irrigation and Water Development Minister, Kondwani Nankhumwa, on Thursday, September 20 2019 as from 9am, he toured two strategic establishments related to his ministry, Blantyre Water Board (BWB) and the Smallholder Farmers Fertilizer Revolving Fund of Malawi (SFFRFM) headquarters in Blantyre. Minister Nankhumwa inspected works under the […]
A leading Malawi daily newspaper has called for government to investigate reports that 20 metric tonnes (MT) of expired pesticides – meant me to be destroyed – were stolen from the Smallholder Farmers Fertiliser Revolving Fund of Malawi (SFFRFM) warehouse and have now flooded the market where unsuspecting framers are buying. In a report published […]
Malawi Police in Ntcheu have arrested a sales clerk and a watchman for Smallholder Farmers Fertiliser Revolving Fund of Malawi (SFFRM) in connection with the theft of K22.7 million cash from the shop. Ntcheu police spokesperson Gift Matewere identified the clerk as Soya Chimenya and the watchman as Charles Laison. Matewere said thugs broke into the shop […]
Minister of Agriculture Allan Chiyembekeza suspected a foul play on this year’s Farm Input Subsidy Program (Fisp) which experience some hitches with some districts not yet provided with the coupons or fertiliser for distribution despite it being rainy season. Chiyembekeza in an interview monitored on public broadcaster MBC, questioned the delay by the Reserve Bank […]