Ministry of Agriculture News

Ministry takes banana production to schools

Published: 21 March, 2024

In a bid to promote banana production among young people in the country, Ministry of Agriculture through the Department of Crop Development (DCD) has embarked on an exercise of introducing banana farming in the country’s primary and secondary schools. The initiative dubbed ‘School Banana Orchard Establishment” is being carried out...

Chakwera commends tobacco farmers; 2023 tobacco marketing season opens

Published: 21 March, 2024

State President Dr. Lazarus McCarthy Chakwera has commended tobacco farmers in the country for taking lead in the generation of foreign exchange saying they are the ones keeping the country’s economy on its feet. Speaking as he officially opened this year’s tobacco marketing season at Lilongwe Auction Floors at Kanengo,...