{"id":40738,"date":"2017-02-14T12:04:59","date_gmt":"2017-02-14T10:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=40738"},"modified":"2017-02-14T12:04:59","modified_gmt":"2017-02-14T10:04:59","slug":"ahcx-invests-k10-million-in-tree-planting-exercise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2017\/02\/14\/ahcx-invests-k10-million-in-tree-planting-exercise\/","title":{"rendered":"AHCX invests K10 million in tree planting exercise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AHL Commodities Exchange (AHCX) and its subsidiaries have invested close to K10 million in this year\u2019s national tree planting season.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>AHCX Communications Manager, Thom Kanje, said this during a tree planting exercise held at Luchenza Primary School at the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>He said that the exercise\u2014which targets various districts\u2014seeks to instill the culture of planting trees in learners and communities, especially farmers to bring back the lost vegetative cover.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor this event we have invested K1 million. It has to be underscored that trees contribute a lot to both health and agriculture, hence our decision to embark on this,\u201d said Khanje.<\/p>\n<p>He stated that as a company, they will continue embarking on such ventures as one way of conserving nature. \u201cAs we deal with farmers across the country, we have a policy to ensure that we conserve nature by planting more trees annually,\u201d said Khanje.<\/p>\n<p>Luchenza Municipality officials said the move will help communities to engage in small scale businesses like timber production once such trees mature.<\/p>\n<p>AHCX\u2014established in 2013\u2014is Malawi\u2019s international window for commodities where buyers and sellers transact trade in grain and legumes with assurance of quality, quantity, delivery and payment.<\/p>\n<p>Commodities traded through AHCX includes maize, soya beans, pigeon peas, groundnuts, red kidney beans, white haricot beans, dark speckled beans, light speckled beans, sunflower, cow pea and rice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AHL Commodities Exchange (AHCX) and its subsidiaries have invested close to K10 million in this year\u2019s national tree planting season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":40739,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40738"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40743,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40738\/revisions\/40743"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}