{"id":55636,"date":"2017-11-03T12:52:27","date_gmt":"2017-11-03T10:52:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=55636"},"modified":"2017-11-03T12:52:28","modified_gmt":"2017-11-03T10:52:28","slug":"ahcx-land-o-lakes-agree-to-enhance-market-facilitation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2017\/11\/03\/ahcx-land-o-lakes-agree-to-enhance-market-facilitation\/","title":{"rendered":"AHCX, Land O\u2019 Lakes agree to enhance market facilitation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Malawi\u2019s open market for agriculture commodities, AHL Commodities Exchange (AHCX), has signed an agreement with Land O\u2019 Lakes under which the two institutions have agreed to collaborate in the development of markets of fruits and vegetables.<\/p>\n<p>The products will be grown locally, with support from Land O\u2019 Lakes, and will be supplied to both the local and international markets.<\/p>\n<p>AHCX Board Chairperson Evans Matabwa and Land O\u2019 Lakes Malawi Country Director Timothy Nzioka signed the agreement recently in Lilongwe during the launch of Land O\u2019 Lakes\u2019 Malawi Strengthening Inclusive Markets for Agriculture (Msika) project.<\/p>\n<p>The project, which will span over five years, will be implemented in five districts, namely Li longwe, Dedza, Mchinji, Ntcheu and Mangochi.<\/p>\n<p>Nzioka said Land O\u2019 Lakes will work with AHCX to find markets for fruits and vegetables through a modern and transparent market platform.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSelling through AHCX will enable farmers to benefit from competitive prices as well as have access to up-to-date market information,\u201d Nzioka said.<\/p>\n<p>The project will support the productivity, value addition and marketing of fruits and vegetables such as mangoes, citrus, guava, potatoes, tomatoes, unions and chillies, with the aim of increasing potential for exports of processed products in the long run.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malawi\u2019s open market for agriculture commodities, AHL Commodities Exchange (AHCX), has signed an agreement with Land O\u2019 Lakes under which the two institutions have agreed to collaborate in the development of markets of fruits and vegetables. The products will be grown locally, with support from Land O\u2019 Lakes, and will be supplied to both the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":55641,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55636","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\/55636","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=55636"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55642,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55636\/revisions\/55642"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}