The PEOPLE’S PARTY recognizes that the old ways of doing agriculture have not brought tangible benefits to Malawi’s hardworking farming community. It is therefore committed to spearhead institutional and structural reforms of the sector which will provide a solid foundation for dramatic and irreversible change that will benefit the Malawian farmer. The institutional and structural reforms that the PEOPLE’S PARTY Government will introduce shall include: • In order to bring focus and visibility of the Livestock and Fisheries Subsector, the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security will be restructured into two separate ministries, namely: a) Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security, and b) Ministry of Livestock and Fisheries Development • Establish Malawi Agricultural Transformation Authority (MATA) as a semi- autonomous institution whose primary responsibility will be to catalyse transformation and sustainable change in the sector by working in partnership with key stakeholders to identify and address systemic bottlenecks in the sector; • Create an Agricultural Investment Bank to provide credit to farmers on a sustainable basis according to their specific need • Mobilise and establish new Cooperatives and strengthen existing ones in order to enable farmer associations to mechanize farming activities; cultivate high-value commodities; purchase inputs and access credit facilities and extension services in a structured manner; • Undertake a thorough home-grown review of Agricultural Development Marketing Corporation Ltd (ADMARC) with the intention of redesigning and transforming it into a new entity that can better address the needs of all Malawians in a sustainable and progressive manner • Improve management of the National Food Reserve Agency and build regionally designated Silos in Blantyre, Lilongwe and Mzuzu in addition to strategically place Sub regional ones in Karonga, Mzimba, Mchinji, Ntcheu, Mulanje and Nsanje while working towards fully divesting government of this responsibility within the framework of public private partnerships in the medium to long term. • Strengthen and support research and development capacity for the agricultural sector by restructuring the Department of Agricultural Research Services (DARS) into a National Agricultural Research Institute with improved infrastructure, working closely with institutions of higher learning and local and international agricultural research centres. • Create and facilitate a conducive environment to attract investors, both local and international, to produce fertilizers locally while the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security works to update area-specific fertilizer recommendation PEOPLES PARTY IS THE ONLY POLITICAL PARTY WITH A MANIFESTO
Posted on: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 16:25:52 +0000
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