{"id":9091,"date":"2012-04-17T13:09:44","date_gmt":"2012-04-17T13:09:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/?p=9091"},"modified":"2012-04-17T13:09:44","modified_gmt":"2012-04-17T13:09:44","slug":"malawi-sugar-group-to-invest-40m-to-kick-start-nkhata-bay-cane-production-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/2012\/04\/17\/malawi-sugar-group-to-invest-40m-to-kick-start-nkhata-bay-cane-production-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Malawi sugar group to invest $40m to kick-start Nkhata Bay cane production"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Malawi\u2019s Limphasa Sugar Corporation plans to invest $40-million to kick-start sugar cane production in the northern lakeshore district of Nkhata Bay in 2013.<br \/>\nThe company, which has a 600 ha plant-ation at the site, is set to become Malawi\u2019s second-biggest sugar producer after South Africa\u2019s Illovo Sugar group, which owns the Nchalo and Dwangwa sugar cane plantations and sugar factories in the country.<br \/>\n\u201cLimphasa expects to use the financial resources to expand its sugar cane plantations to 1 500 ha. We plan to cover about 5 000 ha in 2013, when we will start production at our newly established factory,\u201d says the company\u2019s spokesperson, Kirit Thakrar. &#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/mzimbe.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/mzimbe.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"mzimbe\" width=\"407\" height=\"305\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9092\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malawi\u2019s Limphasa Sugar Corporation plans to invest $40-million to kick-start sugar cane production in the northern lakeshore district of Nkhata [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9092,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[230],"tags":[1437,2094,1794,2095],"class_list":["post-9091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-agriculture","tag-nkhatabay","tag-production","tag-sugar","tag-sugarcane"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9091","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=9091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9091\/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=9091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}