Ministry of Agriculture (Malawi)

Ministry of Agriculture

Tumbuka: Unduna wa vya Chuma Chichewa: Unduna wa za Chuma
Ministry overview
Jurisdiction	Government of Malawi
Headquarters	Lilongwe, Malawi 13°59′S 33°47′E
Annual budget	MWK. 60 billion (2016, recurrent)
Minister responsible	Minister of Agriculture
Ministry executive	Samuel Kawale
Child agencies	ADMARC Department of Agriculture Department of Agricultural Development Institute of Post‐Harvest Technology Malawi Council for Agricultural Research Policy

The Ministry of Agriculture is the central government ministry of Malawi responsible for agriculture. The ministry has the responsibility of formulating and implementing national policy on home affairs and other subjects which come under its purview. The current Minister of Agriculture is Samuel Kawale.

Key objectives

The key objective of the Ministry of agriculture is to:

• Established food and nutrition security,
• Stable prices for agricultural products,
• Timely implementation of projects, Increase production in selected crops,
• Efficient and effective implementation of accelerated food production programme,
• Efficient and effective use of foreign funds,
• Customer friendly and result oriented administrative system,
• Results-based management in entire government sector.
• Supportive agricultural policy for food and allied agricultural crops,
• Efficiently coordinated paddy purchasing and marketing programme

See also

• Minister of Agriculture (Malawi)