{"id":23658,"date":"2026-02-12T05:39:01","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T03:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/malawi-resumes-maize-purchases-after-funding-delays\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:34:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:34:25","slug":"malawi-resumes-maize-purchases-after-funding-delays","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/malawi-resumes-maize-purchases-after-funding-delays\/","title":{"rendered":"Malawi resumes maize purchases after funding delays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Malawi government, through the National Food Reserve Agency , has resumed buying maize from farmers after a temporary suspension caused by a shortage of funds.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The halt in purchases in recent days had raised concern among farmers who rely on the programme as a key market for their produce. Authorities say the buying process is now back on track following the release of additional funds.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The move is expected to bring relief to growers and help stabilise maize supplies for the country\u2019s strategic food reserves.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;ChannelAfrica&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":14750,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-23658","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Malawi government, through the National Food Reserve Agency , has resumed buying maize from farmers","published_date":"2026-02-12 07:29:26","news_description":"Malawi government, through the National Food Reserve Agency , has resumed buying maize from farmers","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/23658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/23658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26557,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/23658\/revisions\/26557"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=23658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}