{"id":1892,"date":"2016-09-07T16:35:29","date_gmt":"2016-09-07T20:35:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/pmil\/?p=1892"},"modified":"2016-09-09T13:00:44","modified_gmt":"2016-09-09T17:00:44","slug":"afri-oils-aims-to-revive-peanut-exports-from-malawi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/ftfpeanutlab\/2016\/09\/afri-oils-aims-to-revive-peanut-exports-from-malawi\/","title":{"rendered":"Afri-Oils aims to revive peanut exports from Malawi"},"content":{"rendered":"

Agribusiness investor AgDevCo will put $1.5 million into a Malawian peanut processor that aims to make the country an exporter again.<\/p>\n

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The company, Afri-Oils Limited, is building a new processing facility to handle locally grown peanuts, and estimates that the company will provide higher incomes for 18,000 Malawian smallholder farmers by marketing nuts in regional and export markets.<\/p>\n

Malawi produces over 200,000 tonnes of groundnuts a year, but exports collapsed after European and other markets tightened quality standards for aflatoxin, the natural byproduct of a mold that can contaminate peanuts, maize and other crops. Through farmer training programs, and improved handling and sorting methods, Afri-Oils aims to demonstrate that Malawi can meet international standards on the control of aflatoxin.<\/p>\n

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Afri-Oils\u2019 shareholders include NASFAM, a large Malawian farmers association, and Exagris, which owns a Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Foods (RUTF) paste manufacturer in Malawi. The company also benefits from a Dutch Government grant.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfri-Oils aims to be a profitable enterprise that improves the lives of its farmer suppliers, and contributes to systemic improvements in the groundnut industry in Malawi,\u201d said Afri-Oils\u2019 Chairman Tim de Borde.<\/p>\n

Click here to go to the full news release.<\/a><\/p>\n

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Agribusiness investor AgDevCo will put $1.5 million into a Malawian peanut processor that aims to make the country an exporter again. The company, Afri-Oils Limited, is building a new processing facility to handle locally grown peanuts, and estimates that the company will provide higher incomes for 18,000 Malawian smallholder farmers by marketing nuts in regional […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":178,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/ftfpeanutlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/ftfpeanutlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/ftfpeanutlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/ftfpeanutlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/178"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/ftfpeanutlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1892"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/ftfpeanutlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1898,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/ftfpeanutlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1892\/revisions\/1898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/ftfpeanutlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/ftfpeanutlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/ftfpeanutlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}