Category Manufacturing

PEANUT BUTTER MAKER APPLAUDS TOURISM EXPO

Elizabeth Mwamadi, owner of a Lilongwe-based Nojo Trading, a small-scale company that makes peanut butter, has described the Takulandirani Tourism Expo as a game changer to the country’s locally made products.  Mwamadi, who started making peanut butter last year told…

AGRICULTURE WORKER INVENTS PLANTING IMPLEMENT

Lilongwe-based Extension Worker George Kussein has invented an implement for making planting stations called Mkamwini wa Chimanga Sasakawa. He said the implement is targeting small-scale farmers as the implements that large-scale farmers use are expensive. Said Kussein: “The Mkamwini Wachimanga…

SOLAR PUMPS EARNS MAN BIG

A Malawi School Certificate of Education holder Charles Chigongono says designing and installation of solar-powered irrigation pumps earns him K10 million. The 43-year-old has told ProjectM that his innovation was influenced by climate change, which has affected agricultural productivity because…

ETHCO SET TO START FERTILISER PRODUCTION

Preparations for the planting of a fertilizer processing company at Dwangwa Illovo Sugar Estate by Ethanol Company Limited (ETHCO) in Nkhotakota are at an advanced stage with hopes of producing approximately 10,000 metric tons of fertilizer per year. Chief Executive…