Jump to content

Ministry of Agriculture (Malawi)

Coordinates: 13°59′S 33°47′E / 13.983°S 33.783°E / -13.983; 33.783
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ministry of Agriculture
Tumbuka: Unduna wa vya Chuma
Chichewa: Unduna wa za Chuma
Ministry overview
JurisdictionGovernment of Malawi
HeadquartersLilongwe, Malawi
13°59′S 33°47′E / 13.983°S 33.783°E / -13.983; 33.783
Annual budget
  • MWK. 60 billion (2016, recurrent)
Minister responsible
  • Minister of Agriculture
Ministry executive
Child agencies
  • ADMARC
  • Department of Agriculture
  • Department of Agricultural Development
  • Institute of Post‐Harvest Technology
  • Malawi Council for Agricultural Research Policy

The Ministry of Agriculture is the central government ministry of Malawi responsible for agriculture.[1][2] The ministry has the responsibility of formulating and implementing national policy on home affairs and other subjects which come under its purview.[3] The current Minister of Agriculture is Samuel Kawale.[4]

Key objectives

[edit]

The key objective of the Ministry of agriculture is to:[5]

  • Established food and nutrition security,
  • Stable prices for agricultural products,
  • Timely implementation of projects, Increase production in selected crops,
  • Efficient and effective implementation of accelerated food production programme,
  • Efficient and effective use of foreign funds,
  • Customer friendly and result oriented administrative system,
  • Results-based management in entire government sector.
  • Supportive agricultural policy for food and allied agricultural crops,
  • Efficiently coordinated paddy purchasing and marketing programme

See also

[edit]

References

[edit]
  1. ^ Richard, Mphatso Khutcha (2024-04-05). "Ministry of Agriculture announces farm gate prices, minimum price for maize/rice at K650 per KG Malawi 24 | Latest News from Malawi". Malawi 24. Retrieved 2024-07-14.
  2. ^ Daza, Chikondi (2023-12-14). "Ministry of Agriculture satisfied with Mega Farm's progress Malawi 24 | Latest News from Malawi". Malawi 24. Retrieved 2024-07-14.
  3. ^ Reporter, Malawi24 (2022-10-21). "Ministry of Agriculture involved in another fertilizer scam Malawi 24 | Latest News from Malawi". Malawi 24. Retrieved 2024-07-14.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  4. ^ Richard, Mphatso Khutcha (2024-03-22). "Macadamia a game-changer for Malawi, says Kawale Malawi 24 | Latest News from Malawi". Malawi 24. Retrieved 2024-07-14.
  5. ^ Reporter, Malawi24 (2022-08-11). "Cyclone Nepotism: Agriculture Ministry demotes directors from the South Malawi 24 | Latest News from Malawi". Malawi 24. Retrieved 2024-07-14.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)