Bingu wa Mutharika Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===First term=== During President Mutharika's first term in office (2004β2008), the country achieved a high rate of agricultural production and [[food security]]. The President's initiatives, centred on a programme of [[agricultural subsidy]], benefited approximately 1,700,000 resource poor [[smallholding|smallholder]] farmers. In the 2005/2006 crop season, Malawi achieved a food surplus of more than 500,000 metric tons. During the 2008/2009 planting season, food surpluses topped 1.3 million metric tons. This agricultural policy was widely regarded as successful but expensive, and was curtailed in 2011.<ref name=iri>{{cite web|url=http://www.irinnews.org/printreport.aspx?reportid=93954 |title=IRIN Africa | MALAWI: Farm subsidy programme shrinks | Governance |agency=IRIN |date=13 October 2011 |access-date=13 January 2012}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page