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Africa-Press<\/a> – Malawi<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>The Centre for Democracy and Economic Development Initiatives (CDEDI) says Minister of Agriculture Lobin Lowe has told the organization that the initial beneficiaries\u2019 list of the Affordable Inputs Programme (AIP) can only be maintained if Treasury provides additional funding.<\/p>\n

CDEDI executive director Sylvester Namiwa has said this in a statement released yesterday following a Lowe at the ministry\u2019s headquarters in Lilongwe on Thursday, September 2<\/p>\n

The Ministry announced in July that the number AIP beneficiaries would be reduced from 3.8 million farmers to 2.7 million farmers. This year the programme has been allocated K142 billion<\/p>\n

But in August, President Chakwera maintained that no farmer would be removed from the programme. He suggested that farmers would pay more than the MK4, 500 they paid last year per 50kg bag.<\/p>\n

CDEDI this week engaged Lowe to explain to Malawians some inconsistencies in the policy direction on AIP between himself as the Minister of Agriculture, and his boss -the President.<\/p>\n

Lowe told the organization during the meeting that the scaling down of beneficiaries was necessitated by the resource envelope for the programme in the 2021\/2022 growing season, and that it was a routine exercise which the ministry conducts prior to the growing season.<\/p>\n

He added that the list of beneficiaries had to be reworked after it was noted that it included people whom he described as \u2018undeserving beneficiaries\u2019 such as some officials from his own ministry and other civil servants, whom he said had now been removed from the database;<\/p>\n

\u201cGiven the allocated resources, the minister has lamented that it is not possible to maintain the initial beneficiaries\u2019 list, unless Cabinet pushes Treasury to either make available additional resources, or approve the increase of the contributions made by the beneficiaries from the current MK4, 500 per 50kg bag of fertilizer to any reasonable amount, or look for cheaper fertilizer elsewhere,\u201d CDEDI said in a statement.<\/p>\n

Namiwa, based on the discussions with the Minister, has since faulted President Chakwera for his decision to override the ministry of Agriculture on the matter. He said the president wants to be seen to be politically-correct even though the Ministry responding to the prevailing situation on the ground.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is everyone\u2019s guess as to the uncertainty that faces this year\u2019s AIP; more so given that options available to meet the President\u2019s political wish are a tall order.<\/p>\n

\u201cTherefore, CDEDI is advising the President to accept the harsh reality on the ground and act above politics,\u201d said Namiwa.<\/p>\n

He further noted that the AIP has become a huge mountain to climb for the Tonse Alliance administration as it has proved to be a very costly and unsustainable exercise.<\/p>\n

Namiwa then urged government to start saving money from the AIP initiative by slowly scaling down the number of beneficiaries and investing such savings in local production of fertilizer as a meaningful way of cutting down both on government expenditure, as well as on the sky-rocketing prices of fertilizer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Malawi. The Centre for Democracy and Economic Development Initiatives (CDEDI) says Minister of Agriculture Lobin Lowe has told the organization that the initial beneficiaries\u2019 list of the Affordable Inputs Programme (AIP) can only be maintained if Treasury provides additional funding. CDEDI executive director Sylvester Namiwa has said this in a statement released yesterday […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":5308,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,8,12],"tags":[268,233,371,311,1022,234],"class_list":["post-5309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-homepage-english","category-policy","tag-affordable-input-programme-aip","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-malawi","tag-cdedi","tag-lobin-lowe","tag-malawi"],"yoast_head":"\nDifficult to maintain AIP beneficiaries list, Minister tells CDEDI - Malawi<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Centre for Democracy and Economic Development Initiatives (CDEDI) says Minister of Agriculture Lobin Lowe has told t ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/difficult-to-maintain-aip-beneficiaries-list-minister-tells-cdedi\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Difficult to maintain AIP beneficiaries list, Minister tells CDEDI\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Centre for Democracy and Economic Development Initiatives (CDEDI) says Minister of Agriculture Lobin Lowe has told t ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/difficult-to-maintain-aip-beneficiaries-list-minister-tells-cdedi\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Malawi\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-09-04T22:00:14+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-09-04T22:11:21+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2021\/09\/img-6133eeeaac758.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1000\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"750\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/difficult-to-maintain-aip-beneficiaries-list-minister-tells-cdedi#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/difficult-to-maintain-aip-beneficiaries-list-minister-tells-cdedi\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Difficult to maintain AIP beneficiaries list, Minister tells CDEDI\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-09-04T22:00:14+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-09-04T22:11:21+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/difficult-to-maintain-aip-beneficiaries-list-minister-tells-cdedi\"},\"wordCount\":498,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/difficult-to-maintain-aip-beneficiaries-list-minister-tells-cdedi#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2021\/09\/img-6133eeeaac758.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Affordable Input Programme (AIP)\",\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Malawi\",\"CDEDI\",\"Lobin Lowe\",\"Malawi\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"head lines\",\"homepage-english\",\"policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/difficult-to-maintain-aip-beneficiaries-list-minister-tells-cdedi#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/difficult-to-maintain-aip-beneficiaries-list-minister-tells-cdedi\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/difficult-to-maintain-aip-beneficiaries-list-minister-tells-cdedi\",\"name\":\"Difficult to maintain AIP beneficiaries list, Minister tells CDEDI - 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