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Global BusinessGrowing MalawiCharlotte Ashton reports from a Sugarcane Outgrowers plantation in Malawi

Could Phata be a model for growth in the country?

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Boom irrigation systems bring precious water to the Phata plantation

This technology was installed with a grant from the EU and a "social impact" loan.

  • Lush Malawi after the rainy season
  • What famine? Members of the Phata Sugarcane Outgrowers Cooperative sort bags of maize grown on their irrigated plantation.
  • Sugarcane Avenue
  • Boom irrigation systems bring precious water to the Phata plantation
  • Ilovo, Africa's biggest sugar producer has a mill just down the road from Phata...
  • Winston Johan is the Cooperative's Chairman and the dividend he is paid has allowed him to...

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