Malawi has potential to realize over K61 billion from maize exports, translating into increased net wealth by one percent of the gross domestic product (GDP), agricultural and commodity exchange experts have said.
Teddie Nakhumwa: Participated
Manyenje: Malawi is losing over K370 billion annually to unregulated exportation of legume crops.
The experts made the sentiments on Thursday evening during a panel discussion the National Planning Commission (NPC) organization with technical support from the African Institute for Development Policy (AFIDEP) and the Copenhagen Consensus Centre (CCC).
The discussion drew high level participants such as the Principal Secretary for Trade, Christina Chatima, Chairperson of the Parliamentary Committee on Trade, Simplex Chithyola Banda, Agricultural Commercialization Project Ted Nankhumwa, Agriculture Commodity Exchange (ACE) Chief Executive Officer for Africa, Kristian Moller, Head of Operations at the AHL Group plc, Davis Manyenje, and Pyxus Ag
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Two Southern Region cooperatives, Shire Highlands Milk Producers (SHMPA) and Minyali Cotton Farmers, were on Thursday presented with a truck each under government-funded Agriculture Commercialisation (AGCOM) project.
Maganga delivering her speech. Seated to her right is Nakhumwa
SHMPA’s chairperson Zione Chakhaka testifying
The two trucks
The women celebrate
The farmers asked for the funding to ease challenges they face in transporting their produce to various markets and also received more funds for the SHMPA farmers to buy extra food supplements for their dairy cows and for buying more cows to be supplied to new and existing members of the cooperative.