Policy Direction Brief: Enabling Malawi’s Root And Tuber Crop Producers Achieve Financial Literacy And Access Available Financing Instruments For The Development Of The Sector In Malawi
Executive Summary Key Performance Objective Through RTC Action, RTCDT intends to establish transformative linkages and advocate for sustainable enabling policy environment for development and trading of RTCs commodities production, financing and investment in infrastructure, strengthen business services and improve farmers’ livelihoods. What is the problem? The Root and Tuber Crops (RTC) value chain in Malawi…
Read More →Statutory registration compliance key driver to RTC commercialization
The Root and Tuber Crops Development Trust (RTCDT) secretariat says statutory registration compliance and trading as formal businesses withing the value chain is the only way to kickstart meaningful RTC commercialization being sought by its members. From the fall of 2022, the RTCDT commenced a targeted exercise to engage members on a membership Audit and…
Read More →Exploring new RTC export market frontiers
As a central point of The Root and Tuber Crops Development Trust (RTCDT) Strategic Plan for the platform 2023-2028, the platform will drive agenda to explore a new export market frontier for RTCs starting with the export of Malawi’s potato, say board chair Jean Pankuku. The RTCDT is engaging stakeholders and leading in conducting informative…
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The unlikely industrial rise of Cassava
Malawi’s Cassava is heading towards finding itself in an unfamiliar position; top of the food chain in Malawi’s food industry. The unlikely Malawi Cassava industrial rise tale may bizarrely have to forever be attributed to the grim Covid-19 pandemic for its lucky break and newly found industrial suitors and adopters. The COVID-19 pandemic has caused…
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Cassava promising much for Malawi
Long regarded as an organic nutrition light weight and cashless root, Malawi’s cassava is getting attention and may in a not-too-distant future heavily spread its relevance beyond traditional food industries. For Malawian communities – mostly along Lake Malawi – that produce cassava as a mainstay staple, reinventing cassava to deliver more to their income besides…
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Of Malawi’s Potato seed betterment
Potato farmer and local seed producer, James Maulana, is what you would call the seed go-to-guy for Dedza, central Malawi’s thriving potato industry. In fact, the larger than life farmer goes further. He says he is the present day fortune maker. Through a modern science based project, he and a few of his peers have…
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A Potato Gold mine
Fradwell Kalema says he has struck gold and dares you he is convinced he has finally turned his fortunes around and is well on his path to becoming the “stinking rich”of Chongoni Hills community-all from his toils from the soils of sleepy Dedza, central Malawi. Quite a remarkable 24 month turn-around romantic tale emanating from…
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