Small-scale growers are empty handed after forking out large sums for equipment and training.
BBC News, Lilongwe
Ms Chilembwe, who has for the last seven years been a tobacco farmer in Kasungu in the west of the country, also scented an opportunity to replace her shrinking returns.The United States Cannabis Association-Malawi , a private Malawian company, has been one of those at the centre of this failure, yet it still hopes that things will work out.
Having already paid $1,500 to acquire the licence, Ms Chilembwe says the group paid thousands more dollars to USCA for registration, seeds and training in 2021."I think the problem lies with [USCA], who cannot deliver what they promised, and then the government itself which does not seem willing to help usThe land where she hoped to set up greenhouses has remained bare, something she says has led to a huge loss to her family.
"We had hope, [that] if we borrowed the money from the bank we knew that we would pay it back," adds the disgruntled former parliamentarian.USCA is one of the four private entities licensed by the government to produce cannabis in Malawi. The head of CRA says the money that was raised from the farmers was spent on running USCA's office operations, and this left them with no funds to carry out their plans.
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