The Govenment has announced that for the first time in history, Malawi will produce 3.1 million Metric tonnes of Maize and will have a surplus of 1million.
With this surplus in mind the government has bought all the maize stock that belonged to admarc so that admarc will be able to buy more from farmers.
The government will increase its maize stock in line with its food security policy of having atleast enough maize that can last 2 years to feed the population if there is hanger.
Some people with surpls maize will be given lincences to export their maize that was stocked last year . At present the maize price continues to go down in areas around kasungu and MCHINJI maize is going at K350 per 50kg bag .
With this in mind some maize silos are being built in Mangochi for the same cause.
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I have every reason to believe this is true because ,i have been to most places the last 2 months and looking at the fields you will see good maize ,for 2009 we will cross the bridge when the right time comes.
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estimates are not done by politicians,they are done by the government through civil servants and to trash their findings is beyond argument.The problem is that some politicians tend to influence some decisions.
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bnk444 wrote: I have every reason to believe this is true because ,i have been to most places the last 2 months and looking at the fields you will see good maize ,for 2009 we will cross the bridge when the right time comes.
STOP counting on eggs before they hatch. Kunja ndi ku mphate kufupi ndi ku Lizulu sikuchedwa ku chenuka. Mvula ikhonza kusiya mochedwa chimanga ndikuola.
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STOP counting on eggs before they hatch. Kunja ndi ku mphate kufupi ndi ku Lizulu sikuchedwa ku chenuka. Mvula ikhonza kusiya mochedwa chimanga ndikuola.
Gentlemen every year since whenever, the Ministry of Agriculture comes out to give crop esimates and there have alway been closer to or more than the actual outcome .I find it very disturbing for you to doubt these estimates.The guys who come up with these estimates are exparts in their field and Government will always know inadvance whether to start prepaing for Hunger or Not depending on their estimation .In the year where the outcome was poor they have always come out and said so. So why should we doubt their estimations this time around?
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Amalawi, we are so used to bad news that when we hear good news we tend to doubt. Let us get rid of the negativity and believe that we are indeed having a bumber yield chaka chino.
Government will allow only 800000 metric tonnes to be exported this year and it will strictly to those with a lincence .This is so inorder to allow Admarc buy more produce from the farmers.
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bnk444 wrote: I have every reason to believe this is true because ,i have been to most places the last 2 months and looking at the fields you will see good maize ,for 2009 we will cross the bridge when the right time comes.
STOP counting on eggs before they hatch. Kunja ndi ku mphate kufupi ndi ku Lizulu sikuchedwa ku chenuka. Mvula ikhonza kusiya mochedwa chimanga ndikuola.
You can recall what I said before. Mvula ija yayambanso ndipo chimanga chija chayamba kukayikitsa. MET department akuti mvula imeneyi ikhala ikubwela for the next two to three weeks ndiye taganizani chimanga chinakhwima kale.
-- Edited by Tango at 13:55, 2007-03-13
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exporting will be done after the rain seson and am sure if anything happens otherwise government will be in control of the situation is not that they will allow you to export just like that you have to meet a creteria that they want it is automatic that one is going to be allowed. I will comment of the MET department when i get the report later.
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