The Nkhotakota District Agriculture Office says almost 25,000 heavily affected families will benefit from the 2025\2026 Lean Season Food Insecurity Response Program [LS-FIRP].
The District’s Director of Agriculture Services, Denis Emmaunel Zingeni said the programme demonstrates governments’ commitment to ensuring that affected households have access to food during the season.
Zingeni says through the Lean Response Program, the council will monitor the situation and support the affected families in the district.
“Nkhotakota is one of the districts which were heavily affected by prolonged dry spell last growing season mostly in the south part of the district including, Zidyana, Mwadzama EPA and Mwansambo,” said Zingeni.
He further articulated that the Council is collaborating with Chiefs and Village Development Committees to ensuring that beneficiaries do not sale the received items within the 4 -months of lean season, starting from November to February next year.
In his remarks Agriculture expert, Joseph Kandiyesa describes the launch of the program as timely as rainy season is fast approaching.
The Department of Disaster Management Affairs DODMA in the office of the president and cabinet, is on Friday 7th November 2025 launching the 2025/2026 Lean season food insecurity response program in Salima district.
The implementation of the 2024/2025 LS-FIRP follows the declaration of State of Disaster by the State President Prof. Arthur Peter Mutharika and recommendations by the Malawi Vulnerability Assessment Committee, which announced that over 4 million people require food assistance in Malawi.
Through the program, food insecure families will receive either a bag of maize or cash amounting to k90, 000 targeting 28 districts and four cities in the country.
