Malawi Farmers Worry About Cotton Production Reduction

On April 19th, Malawi's cotton farmers were worried about the possible reduction in cotton production this year, although Malawi's government subsidies to farmers were in place.

The Mawlawi Administration recently announced a plan to expand cotton production and production, investing 1 billion 600 million grams of watts (about 9 million 400 thousand U.S. dollars), will benefit the horse 500 thousand cotton farmers, aimed at upgrading.

Kim Bea, director of the traditional industry bureau of Longjia County, said that although the government announced the expansion plan of the cotton industry, it did not really subsidize the households.

According to the regulations, 1 liters of pesticide subsidies should be provided for every 2 hectare cotton field, while only 0.25 liters of pesticides are available to the actual cotton farmers.

Caim, general manager of the Malawi cotton development trust, said the company expects cotton cultivation area to be 200 thousand hectares this year, while cotton farmers have cultivated more cultivated land to grow cotton, exceeding the company's subsidy budget.

At present, the company is trying to find more herbicides and other medicines to meet the needs of farmers.

Bernard Maekawa, Vice Minister of agriculture and irrigation development in Malawi, said that a new round of pesticide subsidies is coming in the near future.

It is understood that Malawi has rich and low-cost land resources and labor resources, suitable for climate conditions, and is very conducive to planting cotton and developing cotton processing industry.

The Mawlawi administration has listed cotton cultivation and related value-added industries as a key agricultural development project to speed up the development of cotton planting, textile processing and export of finished products, thereby increasing the added value of its cotton products and expanding the market share in the countries of the region.

At present, Malawi cotton grows mostly.