[civsoc-mw] 100,000 Jobs in Malawi

[KPD]

There was a time Dunstain Mwaungulu came up with  secret formula for
creating jobs. Unfortunately it remained just that, a secret.

Malawi government has been wasting money over the 50 years with little to
show for it.

Here is an example. Malawi government provides farm inputs for 1000
subsistence farmers. Each person owning 2 hectare. That is 1000 hectares.
Any jobs created? Zero. Any industries created. Zero.

Then Malawi government gives ADMARC billions of Kwacha to buy 2 bags of
maize from KB in Chamama, 3 bags of beans from SN in Thambani, 3 bags of
maize from TC in Euthini or MO in Mayaka. All this amounts to wastage
because the same ADMARC will go back to sell the same bags with losses when
one considers overhead to those far flung places.

Let us look at a different model. Government encourages citizens to one
1000 hectare farms. Provide minimal subsidy to those farms.

1000 hectare farm can guarantee provision of raw material to manufacturing
industries. It maybe for juices, barley or wheat for beer production,
export of bran to countries such as Botswana  and Zimbabwe, production and
export of maize meal to DRC and Zambia.

Employment will be created through farm workers, factory workers, transport
and logistics workers, fertilizers producing industries, machinery and
spare parts companies, retail and warehousing.

Many more jobs down the line would be created just from 1000 hectare farm.
Compare that to financing ADMARC and subsidy for 1000 people.

Here we are, we can't export juices made from the various fruits that we
grow. We import from South Africa things that we can produce. At one time a
white South African was coming to Balaka. Buy mangoes and make archer which
he was then exporting in bulk to South Africa.

Ife timangoganiza kwaphya tong'ola siudziwa mtima wa moto.

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