Tag: fertilizer

Three Arrested in Mzimba for Selling Fake Fertilizers to Farmers

Published on January 28, 2025 by Edgar Naitha

Police in Mzimba district have arrested three men on suspicion of selling fake fertilisers. Mzimba Police spokesperson Maria Banda said […]

CFTC Investigates Fertilizer Industry Over Alleged Price Gouging

Published on November 5, 2024 by Edgar Naitha

Competitions and Fair Trading Commission (CFTC) has disclosed that it is investigating players in the fertiliser industry on overpricing allegations. […]

Man Arrested For Being Found With 80 Bags Of Counterfeit Fertilizers

Published on September 16, 2024 by Edgar Naitha

Police in Mponela have arrested George Yotamu, a 51-year-old, for being found in possession of 80 bags of Chitowe (NPK) […]

MPs demand release of withheld urea fertiliser for Southern, Eastern regions

Published on January 31, 2023 by Flora Mitumba

Southern and Eastern Region Members of Parliament (MPs) demand release of urea fertilizer they claim is being held by government. […]

Police nab 6 for inciting violence in Lilongwe

Published on January 6, 2023 by Flora Mitumba

At least six people have been arrested in Lilongwe for allegedly inciting violence at Kamphata Trading Center, along the Lilongwe-Dedza […]

Malawian man arrested for stealing bags of fertilizer from a moving vehicle

Published on December 5, 2022 by Flora Mitumba

29 year old man Annock Mbendera has been arrested in Kanengo, Lilongwe for allegedly stealing five bags of NPK fertilizer […]

Ex-Minister Lobin Lowe distances himself from Fertilizer procurement

Published on November 3, 2022 by Robert Ngwira

Former Minister of Agriculture Lobin Lowe has told the Joint Parliamentary Committee that he doesn’t know anything about the claimed […]

PARLIAMENT SUMMONS MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE

Published on October 14, 2022 by Clara Phiri

Parliament has called for the minister of agriculture Honorable Lobin Lowe and all those who took part in the K30 […]

Supplier reduces prices of fertilizer…cites currency appreciation

Published on June 17, 2013 by FACE OF MALAWI

The business community is slowly responding to recent positives in the local economy, with latest being one of the major […]

Subsidy coupons delay—minister

Published on November 21, 2012 by FACE OF MALAWI

Minister of Agriculture Peter Mwanza has admitted that not all coupons for 1.7 million beneficiaries of the farm input subsidy […]

Experts to examine sand blended subsidy fertilizer, Simama denies wrong doing

Published on October 30, 2012 by FACE OF MALAWI

“I don’t want to be seen as defending my company or my driver, but the truth will judge us”, said […]

End fertilizer subsidies to fight hunger – Study indicates

Published on October 29, 2012 by FACE OF MALAWI

Subsidizing farmers’ fertilizer is a poor way to fight hunger and should be phased out, according to a new report […]

Govt cancels subsidy fertiliser contracts to Mulli, Masangwi and others

Published on July 22, 2012 by FACE OF MALAWI

overnment has cancelled prospective fertiliser procurement contracts for farm input subsidy which were supposed to be awarded to 20 suppliers. […]

Crap Economics 101

Published on October 25, 2011 by FACE OF MALAWI

One of the premier junk journals – the Groan – has a good example of the type of harms done […]