{"id":61927,"date":"2018-03-08T10:36:33","date_gmt":"2018-03-08T08:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=61927"},"modified":"2018-03-08T10:36:34","modified_gmt":"2018-03-08T08:36:34","slug":"malawi-rolls-out-sadc-trade-related-facility-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2018\/03\/08\/malawi-rolls-out-sadc-trade-related-facility-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Malawi rolls out Sadc Trade Related Facility Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Tourism has said Malawi has commenced the implementation of the European Union (EU)- funded Sadc Trade Related Facility (TRF) Project.<\/p>\n<p>Secretary for Trade, Industry and Tourism, Ken Ndala, said in a statement yesterday, the objective of the project is to improve the participation of Malawi in regional and international trade by addressing bottlenecks to industrial development and trade promotion.<\/p>\n<p>The implementation of the project follows the signing of a 1.4 million euros grant agreement with Sadc for the Upgrading and Modernisation of Oilseeds Cluster in Malawi and Implementation of Rules of Origin project which runs from 2017 to 2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOf particular importance, the project aims at creating a more conducive environment for exports and, in so doing, improving Malawi as an investment destination, especially in the sectors prioritised in the National Export Strategy,\u201d Ndala said.<\/p>\n<p>He said one of the interventions the project is supporting is the Upgrading and Modernisation of the Oilseed Product Cluster.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis intervention area is which is part of the process of domesticating the Sadc Industrialisation and Strategy and Roadmap and implementation of the Malawi Industrial Policy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith the support of Malawi Bureau of Standards, the project is supporting the harmonisation of standards and quality enhancement of all seed products,\u201d Ndala said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Tourism has said Malawi has commenced the implementation of the European Union (EU)- funded Sadc Trade Related Facility (TRF) Project. Secretary for Trade, Industry and Tourism, Ken Ndala, said in a statement yesterday, the objective of the project is to improve the participation of Malawi in regional and international [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":61929,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61927","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\/61927","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=61927"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61933,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61927\/revisions\/61933"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}