Ministry of Trade and Industry says it is working on establishing formal markets for root and tuber crops as the country moves into the second phase of scaling up the crops’ output.
The ministry’s director of trade Charity Musonzo said this on Tuesday in Lilongwe on the sidelines of a project inception workshop of a market-led transformation of root and tuber crops subsector in the country.
The International Potato Center, with funding from the Irish Embassy, has entered into the second phase of promoting root and tuber crops to increasing production and quality of the root and tuber crops for domestic and export markets.
Malawi to roll out formal markets for root, tubers.