{"id":7606,"date":"2012-03-08T13:38:34","date_gmt":"2012-03-08T13:38:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/?p=7606"},"modified":"2012-03-08T13:38:34","modified_gmt":"2012-03-08T13:38:34","slug":"mozambicans-coming-to-malawi-to-mill-grain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/2012\/03\/08\/mozambicans-coming-to-malawi-to-mill-grain\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozambicans coming to Malawi to mill grain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/maizemill.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/maizemill.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"maizemill\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-7607\" \/><\/a>Mozambican farmers in the locality of Vila Nova da Fronteira, in Mutarara district in the western province of Tete, are obliged to cross into Malawi to mill their maize and sorghum, according to a report in Thursday\u2019s issue of the Beira daily paper \u201cDiario de Mocambique\u201d.The head of the locality, Francisco Wiliam, said the problem is that there is no electricity in Vila Nova da Fronteira. The only flour mills available are manual, and so local residents prefer to use the electric mills in Malawi, which turn their grain into flour much faster.Wiliam said that his locality lacks both electricity and water, and so some of the 18,000 or so people who live in Vila Nova da Fronteira depend on Malawi, and make the short trip across the border every day.\u201cThe women mill maize and sorghum in Malawi, because we have no electric mills here\u201d, he said. \u201cThey also fetch water for domestic consumption because we don\u2019t have enough pumps to supply the entire population\u201d.\u201cLife would be made easier if we were connected to electricity at Baue, in the Charre administrative post\u201d, Wiliam added. \u201cThen we wouldn\u2019t have to go into Malawi\u201d.Technically, crossing the border in this way is illegal, but the police take no action to stop it. Abdul Bonomar, the deputy commander of the Frontier Guard company stationed at Vila Nova da Fronteira, said the matter was not regarded as serious. \u201cOur work is going well\u201d, he said. \u201cThe border violations are simple, citizens leave one country and enter the other to buy salt, or go to the hospital or to the flour mills. There\u2019s no danger in this\u201d.To travel to and from Malawi, Vila Nova residents are carried on bicycles. The bicycle owners say they can make 5,000 Malawian kwachas (about 30 US dollars) a day from this transport business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mozambican farmers in the locality of Vila Nova da Fronteira, in Mutarara district in the western province of Tete, are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7607,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[1724,464,675],"class_list":["post-7606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news","tag-grain","tag-maize","tag-mozambique"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7606","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=7606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7606\/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=7606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}