Central Medical Stores Trust is lobbying stakeholders to have a legal mandate for pharmaceutical production which it hopes could help reduce by 15% the budget it uses to procure drugs and expedite distribution to health facilities in the country.
Eneless Wonderford of Chikanda village in Traditional Authority Thombodiya in Mulanje District is a married woman with two children.
The National Food Reserve Agency (NFRA) has purchased 64,274 metric tonnes of maize out of this year’s target of over 82,000 metric tonnes.
The Ministry of Agriculture has allowed transporters to a limitless number of trucks as a contingency plan to ensure smooth distribution of farm inputs under the Affordable Inputs Program (AIP).
Having successfully conducted trials and commercialized genetically modified cotton, Malawi has taken an extra step to venture into genetically modified maize, exploring the efficacy of a bioengineered fall army worm resistant maize seed.
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