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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.
The International Institute of Tropical Agriculture has launched Africa’s first soybean speed breeding facility in Zambia, marking a major breakthrough in efforts to accelerate crop improvement and strengthen food systems across the region.
Soybean has emerged as one of the most strategic crops in Sub-Saharan Africa, supporting nutrition, livestock feed, and agro-industrial development.
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