Malawi Relief Fund UK (MRF-UK) has donated 5,000 bags of fertiliser to rural farmers in Balaka.

MRF-UK Country Coordinator Yakub Valli, who made the donation, said Malawi had the potential to attain food security if vulnerable communities have access to farm inputs.

‘Vulnerable communities are in majority nationwide. Therefore, they have the potential to contribute to food security or its insecurity if they are not given needed support’, Valli said.

‘The objective is to ensure that communities in hard-to-reach areas must apply fertilisers to their crops to realise better yields this year.

‘Once farmers realise good yields, they can sell the surplus later in order to buy fertilisers on their own in the next planting season by taking advantage of the government’s affordable input programme initiative’.

It was learnt that the beneficiaries of the fertilisers were identified by the community traditional leaders and their members of parliament.

Valli also noted that similar donations have been made in 12 districts – Blantyre, Mulanje, Chiradzulu, Mwanza, Machinga, Mangochi, Salima, Nkhotakota, Dedham, Lilongwe,Kasungu and Ntcheu.

Source: Nyasa Times

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