Farm Input Subsidy Programme

SAPP impressed with beneficiaries improved access to cheap inputs

Sustainable Agriculture Production Programme (SAPP II) National Coordinator Rex Baluwa says he is satisfied with how beneficiaries of subsidised farm inputs have utilized them...

Mobile marketing system boosts redeeming of subsidized inputs

A 100 percent redemption rate was achieved in Ulongwe Expansion Planning Area (EPA) in Balaka under the second phase of the Sustainable Agriculture Production...

IFAD funded input beneficiaries expect good yields despite dry spells

Persistently hit by dry spells, Balaka district in the southern region of Malawi was again this year not spared from the phenomenon as is...

Subsidised farm inputs helping overcome food insecurity, boosting community incomes

Under the Sustainable Agriculture Production Programme (SAPP II) funded by the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), Lilongwe rural communities are confident of enough maize for consumption as some of it will be sold thereby boosting their incomes.

Farmers’ upbeat on improved yields from IFAD funded subsidized inputs

Manesi Samukani a 46-year old maize farmer from Group Village Headman Mwangawa area says this being her third year in farming, she has managed...

Govt. upbeat on further reduction of maize prices

Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation and Water Development is upbeat that the price of maize in the country is expected to go down further, a...

About 80% redeem IFAD funded farm inputs in Lilongwe

Coming under the Response to Emergencies and Disasters (RED) component in the second phase of the SAPP Programme, the farm inputs are for emergencies and disasters in addition to reducing food insecurity for affected populations and restoring their livelihoods.

Mutharika reintroduces FISP, declares food security top priority

President Arthur Peter Mutharika has reaffirmed his administration’s commitment to ensuring that no Malawian dies of hunger, announcing sweeping interventions in the agriculture sector,...
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