$95m AGRICULTURE PROJECT PICKING UP – Malawi News Online

The six-year Agricultural Commercialisation (Agcom) project, which government started implementing last year, has started gathering momentum, as revealed by Agcom Coordinator, Ted Nankhumwa.

Speaking to reporters in Lilongwe on Monday, Nankhumwa said that over the past year, Agcom has trained 28 district agricultural development officers, 30 agribusiness specialists and 21 trade liaison officers.

“We have gone to villages to train cooperatives and some of them wrote concepts and proposals. We received 79 concepts, out of which 32 were recommended for proposal development. Seventeen proposals were submitted. An independent committee evaluated the proposals and identified 10 for funding,” he said, adding that at least 20 proposals will be funded

The project was launched in 2018 has funding from the World Bank, amounting to $95m. Agcom National Coordinator Ted Nankhumwa, said that the project would contribute to diversified production and increased productivity.