[civsoc-mw] 100,000 Jobs in Malawi

[Tony Thontholani]

Unfortunately, Malawi’s thinking tradition has over the years deteriorated 🤔. Gone are the days when someone would wake up at 4 am, just to think and jot notes 📝. 
And after some time, we would hear that a magnum opus has hit the bookshops! A few weeks later, we would sometimes hear that the magnum opus has been banned!
The author? He is on the run 🏃 
In those days, I was a consummate reader. 

> On 1. Oct 2020, at 20:03, KPD <maluwakpd at gmail.com> wrote:
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> For 50 years we have been looking at tobacco as Malawi's saviour regardless of the signs that more and more people don't want to touch cigarettes. COVID-19 made matters worse because a number of countries banned cigarette smoking together with alcohol.
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> Could we have been producing sugar without large sugar plantations? Why don't we use that to create large plantations of fruit trees so that we can produce juice.
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> The other day I went into a shop and bought juice produced in Egypt. Even the desert countries of middle east produce juice and fruits which one can buy in Nigeria.
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> What is wrong with our thinking? Trucks bring salt from Botswana. Countries like Botswana and Zimbabwe need large quantities of madeya. Yes. Madeya a chimanga is an ingredient for making cattle feed.
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> There is a lot we can produce and export to earn foreign currency. Koma ayi, tizingolima fodya nkumakangana ndi makampani ogula fodya.
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> If we don't change our thing, Malawi will be the same poor country surviving on loans and donations.
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>> On Thu, 1 Oct 2020, 14:14 KPD, <maluwakpd at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> Let us look at a different model. Government encourages citizens to one 1000 hectare farms. Provide minimal subsidy to those farms.
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>> 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.
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>> Employment will be created through farm workers, factory workers, transport and logistics workers, fertilizers producing industries, machinery and spare parts companies, retail and warehousing.
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>> Many more jobs down the line would be created just from 1000 hectare farm. Compare that to financing ADMARC and subsidy for 1000 people.
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>> 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.
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>> Ife timangoganiza kwaphya tong'ola siudziwa mtima wa moto.
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