Firebrand human rights watchdog – the Centre for Democracy and Economic Development Initiatives (CDEDI) – has written the Public Accounts Committee of Parliament (PAC), requesting a probe into how Malawi is benefitting from the tea, tang and macadamia sectors. The organization alleges that unlike tobacco and other exportable crops, the markets for tea, tang and […]
The London Tea Exchange has included Malawi as one of its 43 country initiative to promote Malawi tea and investments in the coming years, its Chief Executive Sheikh Aliur Rahman has said. Speaking on Monday evening in Central London when he inaugurated tea tasting events for the exchange, Rahman said the exchange was committed to […]
Smallholder Tea Estate Company (Steco) officials in Thyolo are counting the cost of damage following violent protests on Saturday after a security guard gunned down to death a suspected tree thief. Villagers around the company last night went amok, damaging property of the company, extensively vandalizing the property in anger. The suspect was gunned down […]
Agriculture, Irrigation and Water Development Minister, Kondwani Nankhumwa, has said he is personally committed to ensuring that Malawian smallholder tea farmers earn better prices than what they are currently getting from tea companies. “I am deeply concerned with the current price, which is K121.30 per kilogram. This price is exploitive, abusive and utterly unfair,” said […]
Government has outlined plans to engage tea estate owners in tourist attraction districts of Mulanje and Thyolo to release part of their land to locals for agricultural activities such as raising livestock and crop production. Speaking at Muloza Border in Mulanje when he presided over ground breaking ceremony for the 20 kilometres Muloza-Chiringa Road on […]
Tea farmers in Thyolo district are planning to open up an organic fertilizer making factory this year having successfully run test studies. Wilfred Kastom, Chairperson of Mtendere Tea Cooperative said, once the factory is established, it will among others reduce cost that farmers incurred when buying chemical fertilizer while at the same time improve their […]
Mulanje South MP Bon Kalindo was on Wednesday forced in parliament to withdraw a statement after he called all foreigners who grab land from Malawians as dogs. The legislator was contributing to a Land Survey Bill. “We should get back the land from these dogs. Why should they get our land, grow tea and sell […]
Thyolo West parliamentarian Charles Mchacha has strongly crticised comedian-turned-politician Bon Kalindo, who is also Mulanje South East parliamentarian, for bringing confusion in his district over commercial land. Nyasa Times has established that Kalindo has been mobilizing the people of tea growing district of Thyolo to stand up against commercial land owners and occupy the land which […]
Some disgruntled locals in southern districts of Thyolo and Mulanje have petitioned President Peter Mutharika and his Zimbabwean counterpart Robert Mugabe to intervene in the wrangle involving tea estate owners and locals in the two districts. The petition, which is recognising Mugabe as African Union (AU) Chairperson, has also been copied to 13 Ambassadors and […]
Malawi’s team production has risen by 3.71 million kilogrammes in the month of January reaching 8.21 million kg with prospects of reaching more in the month of February and March. Global Tea Digest states that tea production date for January Malawi and Bangladesh have risen by 46.72 percent over the same period last year. “These are […]
Malawi government will establish the first ever Tea Auction Floor in the country later this year to maximize foreign exchange earnings. The establishment of the tea auction floor, according to President Joyce Banda, will allow tea to be sold in the country. Speaking during the official opening of the 2013/2014 budget meeting of Parliament in […]
The tea industry in Malawi is optimistic there will be better harvests and earnings next year due to the good rains that have started well. This has been disclosed by Tea Association of Malawi Limited (Taml) Chairman Atu Kalinga. The good prospects are coming at a time when the country is struggling to boost more […]
Malawi’s earning from agriculture continues to perform lowly with forex earnings from tea going down by US$2 million. The Tea Association of Malawi Limited says the crop, which is the second foreign exchange earner after tobacco has managed make sales of US$17.1 million (K3 billion) down from US$19.6 million (K3.6 billion) as of August 2011. […]