Minimum farm gate prices for strategic crops for the 2022/23 agricultural season

The general public is hereby informed that Government has released minimum farm gate prices for strategic crops for the 2022/23 season as follows:

No	Crop	2022/23 Minimum price (MK/kg)
1	Maize	500
2	Rice-polished	1000
3	Rice-unpolished	500
4	Sorghum	400
5	Finger millet	550
6	Soya beans	800
7	Pure beans	700
8	Mixed beans	600
9	White Harricot beans	650
10	Groundnuts- shelled	950
11	Groundnuts- unshelled	800
12	Pigeon peas	550
13	Cowpeas	640
14	Bambara nuts	750
15	Sesame	1100
16	Sunflower	500
17	Paprika	1040 .
18	Chillies	1730
19	Cassava-wet	400
20	Cotton	580 I

The prices are with immediate effect. All agro-dealers, agro-processors and others who deal with commodities are requested to buy the stated crop commodities at prices not less than those stipulated above.

Licences to buy agricultural produce can be obtained from offices of Programme Managers in Karonga, Mzuzu, Kasungu, Lilongwe, Solima, Machinga, Blantyre and Shire Valley Agricultural Development Divisions and the Director of Crop Development at Ministry of Agriculture headquarters. The Applicants applying for buying licences will be required to complete application forms indicating location of their warehouses and serial numbers of scales they will use for buying the produce. All scales must be assized and certified by Malawi Bureau of Standards.

Applicants will also be required to submit monthly returns of the quantity bought for each commodity as required by the Agriculture General Purposes Act. 1987. The returns will be submitted at the office of the Licencing Officer.

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Minimum farm gate prices for strategic crops for the 2022/23 agricultural season

Posted on 10 May, 2023