Tag Archives: Malawi’s Maize crisis

Agriculture, Malawi

ADMARC sets MK600 against maize’s farmgate price of MK500 per kg

Lloyd M’bwana

BLANTYRE-(MaraviPost)-The Agriculture Development Marketing Corporation (ADMARC) on Wednesday, August 23, 2023 set new prices of maize to be sold at MK600 per kilogram against initial farmgate price of MK500 per kg.

This means 50kg of maize will be pegged at MK30,000 against MK25, 000.

The corporation has also set a buying limit of 25 kilograms of maize per individual in its depots that are expected to be opened today.

ADMARC Chief Executive Officer, Daniel Makata justified the move to restrict vendors from monopolizing the market.

Makata disclosed that the staple food will be available on Thursday in all strategic depots.

Barely three months after crop, harvest maize prices have soared hovering in the range of MK30,000 to MK50,000 per kg.

Malawi, Politics

Chakwera is on 9-day sabbatical leave for foreign trip amid Malawi’s fuel, forex, maize crisis

Ufulu

LILONGWE-(MaraviPost)-Without remorse, and worry about the suffering of Malawians, President Lazarus Chakwera has taken a nine-day foreign trip amid shortages of fuel, forex, and maize.

Chakwera has this morning left the country for Luanda, in the Republic of Angola where he’s expected to attend the 43rd Session of the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) Summit Meeting scheduled from 17th to 18th August 2023.

According to Foreign Affairs among other activities, the Summit will elect Angola to become the next Chair of SADC, succeeding the Democratic Republic of Congo.

After attending the SADC Summit Meeting, Chakwera accompanied by his wife Monica will proceed to Johannesburg, the Republic of South Africa, to attend the 15th Session of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa (BRICS) Plus Outreach Summit from 22nd to 24th August 2023.

Chakwera will take advantage of both Summits to hold bilateral consultations with other world leaders with the objective of securing support for Malawi’s economic recovery.

Reverend Chakwera is expected to return home through Kamuzu International Airport on Friday, 25th August at 15:45 hours.

Since assuming the presidency, Chakwera has almost traveled outside the country every two months while draining hard-earned taxpayers’ money.

Even locally, a week can not pass, seeing Chakwera attending petty functions which could be graced by his deputy, cabinet ministers.