{"id":10053,"date":"2012-05-06T13:15:07","date_gmt":"2012-05-06T13:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/?p=10053"},"modified":"2012-05-06T13:15:07","modified_gmt":"2012-05-06T13:15:07","slug":"govt-increases-subsidy-beneficiaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/2012\/05\/06\/govt-increases-subsidy-beneficiaries\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt increases subsidy beneficiaries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <div id=\"attachment_10056\" style=\"width: 147px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/images.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10056\" src=\"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/images.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"images\" width=\"137\" height=\"103\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10056\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10056\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Locals showcasing their farm inputs in Balaka district<\/p><\/div>The Malawi government has said it will increase the number of beneficiaries in the 2012 \/2013 farm input subsidy program.<\/p>\n<p>The program, in which poor farmers by farm inputs like fertilizer at a heavily subsidized price, is the brain child of the late President Bingu wa Mutharika and has been pivotal in turning Malawi from a food beggar to a food secure country.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/images.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/images.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"images\" width=\"137\" height=\"103\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10056\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nMinister of Agriculture and Food security Professor Peter Mwanza disclosed this on Wednesday during a national review workshop on the 2011\/2012 farm input subsidy program.<\/p>\n<p>He cited fuel shortage, corruption and overpricing of farm inputs by some market centers as some of the major challenges the program encountered this season.<\/p>\n<p>1.4 million People benefited from the 2011\/2012 farm input subsidy program this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Malawi government has said it will increase the number of beneficiaries in the 2012 \/2013 farm input subsidy program. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10056,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[342,300,258],"class_list":["post-10053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news","tag-agriculture-2","tag-bingu-wa-mutharika","tag-malawi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}