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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]
The Ministry of Agriculture was established in 1964, shortly after Malawi gained independence from British colonial rule. The ministry was created to oversee the development of the country's agricultural sector, which was then the mainstay of the economy. [3] [2]
Kawale was born in 1979 in Zomba, Malawi.He attended his Secondary School at Paul Roos Gymnasium in Stellenbosch, South Africa. He has a Master's in Business Administration from ESAMI and currently pursuing PhD in Transformation Leadership at Bakke Graduate University, USA.
The President Lazarus Chakwera named Lowe as the minister and Agnes Nkusa Nkhoma as a deputy minister for Agriculture in his first cabinet in 2020. [5] In 2022 he and his deputy Madalitso Wirima Kambauwa were fired as minister by the President. They had paid for a large quantity of fertiliser without the required checks. [6]
The Cabinet of Malawi is the executive branch of the government, ... Ministry of Agriculture Lobin Lowe: Ministry of Trade and Industry Mark Katsonga:
Banda recognised Malawi had few resources other than agriculture. He was an interventionist, and Farmers Marketing Board became an aggressive purchaser of smallholders’ produce. However, disappointing smallholder production and the development of a policy of growing Burley tobacco on estates caused the government to transfer land to the ...
Malawi's agricultural policies are also problematic, the country's food supply is heavily reliant on maize and efforts to diversify crops have been unsuccessful. [9] Therefore, a majority of its population suffered when the crop production, especially maize production, failed in 2001, because people could no longer grow food for themselves and ...
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