To promote irrigation farming and increase farmers’ ability to move from subsistence to commercial farming. Malawi is steadily moving away from dependence on rain-fed agriculture to irrigated agriculture.
The Shire Valley Transformation programme will develop 43,000 hectares of land. By the end the project will have put more than 100,000 hectares on irrigation. We will bring agriculture revolution in Malawi through the Green Belt initiative.
Under this programme, our farmers in the districts of Chikwawa and Nsanje will move from subsistence farming to commercial farming. The programme will use gravity to supply water to the fields. No longer worry about power to pump water to our farms.
To diversify from tobacco and maize and resuscitate the banana industry. “I want rural areas to be centres of development in Malawi”.
March 11, 2020 – https://www.nyasatimes.com/mutharika-launches-k175bn-shire-valley-transformation-rural-areas-to-be-centres-of-development-in-malawi/
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