India to boost Malawi’s agriculture
Indian High Commissioner to Malawi Vanlahuma Vanlahuma says his government is in the process of building a sugar plant in Salima which will help create more jobs in the country.
Apart from the sugar plant there are also plans to construct a processing factory which will help farmers to get a ready market for their crops.
Speaking when he visited the Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources on Friday last week, Vanlahuma said Malawi has a huge potential in agriculture due to its alluvial soils and water availability.
Said Vanlahuma:”Malawi’s land is very fertile. The water resources are also very abundant and as India did by embracing the green revolution, Malawi must follow suit. India is able to feed 1.3 billion because of the green revolution…”
He said the Indian Government puts emphasis on agriculture; hence, the decision to build the sugar plant and the processing factory.
Vanlahuma said the role of agriculture lecturers is very vital if the country is to produce quality produce in its farms.
He said India has over the years allowed Luanar lecturers to pay visits to Indian agriculture universities to learn new methods of improving the agriculture sector.
Luanar vice-chancellor professor Kanyama Phiri, who is scheduled to visit India for two weeks, said Malawi can learn a lot from India.
“I will make sure that I learn how they managed to [make hunger history],” said Kanyama Phiri.
Recently, seven Luanar lecturers also visited India.
The Indian High Commissioner said the exchange visits will continue.
Phiri, you mean you did not learn when you were getting your PhD how to make hunger history? You and your friends are going their just to collect allowances. Why not just google what ever the indians are doing on the internet, assuming they are doing anything new and worthwhile because last time I checked their farmers were comming suicide en mass due to mounting debts, they had fucked with Monsato seeds. Government should stop these trips, the money saved should be used to construct teaching class rooms and learning materials. Kuononga ndalama basi. Mxxxxxii
Well, we all know that 21st century belongs
to technology and innovation. Countries that fail to march with technology,
innovation and science will stagnate and their economy decelerates. To acquire modern technology and to get a
practical knowledge of socio-economic growth of like-minded democracies, it is
important to closely interact with such countries at institutional and
government levels. Browsing internet
will not give such in-depth knowledge, it gives only a superficial knowledge. Just imagine what would happen if LUANAR
stops sending its faculty to other countries for next ten years. Or just
imagine if LUANAR is not visited by experts from other countries for next ten
years. One should realize that there is something more than the so called allowance
that needs to be acknowledged and appreciated. Quoting farmers’ death in India is totally uncalled
for in this context. Rather India’s successful ‘green revolution’ and ‘white
revolution’ should have been rightly quoted.