Ministry of Agriculture News

Chakwera commends tobacco farmers; 2023 tobacco marketing season opens

Published: 11 September, 2023

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, Chakwera...

When bananas make it happen

Published: 10 September, 2023

It's eleven o'clock in the morning. He is alone on a banana farm working unstoppably. The sweat marks on his face define how hard and long he has been working today. That’s his life. Batson Kennyson remained visionary. For a decade, his dream has been to have a poultry farm...

Ministry takes banana production to schools

Published: 10 September, 2023

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 with...

Eased transportation increases cooperative revenue

Published: 10 September, 2023

Just twelve months ago, a challenge for Gwiritse cooperative was finding affordable and sustainable means of transporting their produce from the farm to the group’s warehouse and further to off-takers. 

It is only fifty kilometers between Nsaru Trading Centre where the cooperative is located and Kanengo industrial area where the cooperative...