Tag archives: Shire Valley

Bangula University, new hospital, key roads: Shire Valley’s dated demands in Nchalo Declaration

By Nyasa Times News Desk

More than 200 delegates – including MPs, traditional authorities, civil society leaders and community representatives from Chikwawa and Nsanje – gathered at Arrows Hotel in Nchalo, Chikwawa, on 5 September for the second Nsanje-Chikwawa People’s Conference, producing a declaration demanding government commit to specific, dated development targets across the flood-prone Shire Valley. The two-day event, […]

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Nsanje and Chikwawa unite behind roadmap to unlock region’s economic potential

By Nyasa Times News Desk

Co-chairperson of the Nsanje and Chikwawa Socio-economic Development Trust, Gift Trapence, has insisted that the completion of key infrastructure projects is essential if the Shire Valley districts are to maximise their contribution to Malawi’s national economy. Speaking during the Trust’s People’s Conference in Chikwawa, Trapence singled out a handful of flagship projects he described as […]

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Chilima says Shire Valley Transformation Program in line with  Malawi 2063 agenda

By Nyasa Times Reporter

Vice President, Dr. Saulos Chilima has said the Shire Valley Transformation Program (SVTP) will turn around the agricultural sector by among others, promoting agro-processing. Chilima, who is also Minister responsible for Economic Planning and Development, and Public Reforms, on Monday, toured some development projects in Chikwawa. He commended progress at the irrigation project construction site, […]

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Shire Valley Transformation project takes shape as Minister sets canal compensation deadine

By Nyasa Times Reporter

Minister of Irrigation and Water Development Charles Mchacha has assured beneficiaries who are yet to be compensated in line with the  K175 billion Shire Valley Transformation Programme (SVTP), Conduril,  irrigation canal in Chikwawa that the project will sort them out in three weeks time. Mchacha made the remarks on Wednesday  when he toured the first […]

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Nankhumwa lauds SVTP as catalyst for rapid economic transformation in Malawi

By Nyasa Times Reporter

With the abundant land and water resources in the Malawi, irrigation provides a significant technical means to increase agricultural output, Agriculture, Irrigation and Water Development Minister, Kondwani Nankhumwa has said. He was speaking at Chikwawa Community Centre Ground on Wednesday, 11 March, 2020 when President Arthur Peter Mutharika officially launched the Shire Valley Transformation Programme […]

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Mutharika launches K175bn Shire Valley Transformation: ‘Rural areas to be centres of development in Malawi’’

By Nyasa Times Reporter

President Peter Mutharika has launched a K175 bn Shire Valley Transformation Programme (SVTP)  whose aim is to promote irrigation farming and increase farmers’ ability to move from subsistence to commercial farming. According to President Mutharika, the programme demonstrates that Malawi is steadily moving away from dependence on rain-fed agriculture to irrigated agriculture. In the first […]

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