The Cotton Council of Malawi has launched the 2026 cotton marketing season with optimism, projecting earnings of about K27 billion from the sale of an estimated 22,000 metric tons of cotton.
The Lilongwe Motor Show has secured sponsorship from Nico General and Nico Life, subsidiaries of NICO Holdings Plc, for its highly anticipated 7th edition.
FDH Bank plc has boasted of strong financial performance for the 2025 financial year, posting a profit after tax of K147.796 billion from K74.063 billion in 2024.
What was once hailed as Malawi’s next economic breakthrough has, for many farmers, turned into a costly illusion.
In 2021, cooperatives across the country plunged into industrial hemp farming, lured by promises that the crop—dubbed “green gold”—would rival tobacco as a top foreign-exchange earner.
With projections of up to $700 million in annual revenues, hope spread quickly from policy rooms to rural fields. For thousands of smallholder and commercial farmers, it seemed like a rare chance to escape the volatility of traditional crops and poverty.
Just a few seasons later, that promise lies in ruins.
Malawi’s agriculture sector is set for transformation as Zortrax Honey Malawi rolls out an ambitious beekeeping initiative targeting one million farmers, a move expected to boost rural incomes and strengthen the country’s export-driven economy.
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