Tag: auction

Increased population and drought forces Namibia to auction 170 elephants

Published on December 3, 2020 by FACE OF MALAWI

Namibia has put 170 “high value” wild elephants up for sale due to drought and an increase in elephant numbers, […]

Published on March 10, 2014 by FACE OF MALAWI

Government has finally set tobacco minimum prices as the market opens on 24 March. Minister of Agriculture Dr James Munthali […]

Published on February 25, 2014 by FACE OF MALAWI

The tobacco minimum prices announcement are awaiting ministry of finance’s approval- the tobacco control commission TCCC has said. The Commission […]

Published on January 23, 2014 by FACE OF MALAWI

This year’s tobacco growers registration exercise has attracted less farmers with the figures declining from last year’s 58 000, but […]

Published on January 15, 2014 by FACE OF MALAWI

The Tobacco Control Commission TCC ruled out any possibility of the selling season being opened as earlier as suggested by […]

Published on June 6, 2013 by FACE OF MALAWI

Tobacco sales at Mzuzu auction floors ground to a halt on Thursday after buyers pulled out of auction buying, a […]

Published on May 21, 2013 by FACE OF MALAWI

Malawi is the second largest tea producer in Africa and 12th in the world,it is estimated that Malawi supplies approximately […]

Published on December 2, 2011 by FACE OF MALAWI

As the tobacco marketing season draws to a closer, Malawi has so far sold about 223 million kgs of the […]

Published on September 14, 2011 by FACE OF MALAWI

In Malawi and beyond, child workers as young as five are being exposed to the toxic dangers of tobacco harvesting […]

Published on July 15, 2011 by FACE OF MALAWI

The price of tobacco in Malawi, the world’s largest producer of the burley variety of the leaf, traded 47 percent […]

Published on July 4, 2011 by FACE OF MALAWI

Malawi’s tobacco earnings declined 72 percent from the start of the selling season to July 1 compared with a year […]

Published on June 10, 2011 by FACE OF MALAWI

Tea production in Malawi, Africa’s largest grower of the leaves after Kenya, slumped to 7 percent in May from a […]

Published on May 31, 2011 by FACE OF MALAWI

Tea production in Malawi, Africa’s largest producer of the leaf after Kenya, declined 3.2 percent during the first quarter, the […]

Published on May 23, 2011 by FACE OF MALAWI

TOBACCO farmers are disgruntled over the prices being offered at the auction floors and are urging government to urgently intervene […]