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MALGA Wants More Money to Local Councils
11 August 2025
The once-bustling warehouses of Luchenza in Thyolo, home to Malawi’s strategic grain reserves, now sit in quiet, rusting decay.
Where giant steel doors once rolled open to receive maize and dispatch grain across the country, they now remain locked for weeks at a time.
When Chrispine Moya, 68, (not his real name) from Matchuwana Village under Senior Chief Nchiramwera in Thyolo, heard last month that his wife and daughter had been enlisted to benefit from the rebranded Farm Inputs Subsidy Programme (FISP), he recalled the years when his family harvested over 30 bags of maize from just 0.2 hectares—enough to feed his household of six for a full year.
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