{"id":538,"date":"2018-01-11T14:42:48","date_gmt":"2018-01-11T14:42:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.karongadiocese.org\/?p=538"},"modified":"2018-01-11T14:42:48","modified_gmt":"2018-01-11T14:42:48","slug":"karonga-diocese-takes-chipunga-farm-limited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/karonga-diocese-takes-chipunga-farm-limited\/","title":{"rendered":"Karonga Diocese Takes Over Chipunga Farm Limited"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Stephen Nkhata (Resource Mobilisation Officer)<\/p>\n

Karonga Diocese continues to expand its income generating base and\u00a0 has recently acquired\u00a0 Chipunga Farm Limited with a financial loan from American Conference of Catholic Bishops. The previous owner of the company was Mr Bernard Shwarz.<\/p>\n

The official handovers took place on 4th<\/sup> January, 2018 at Chipunga Farm in Chikwina, Nkhata Bay.\u00a0 During the handover ceremony, delegation from Karonga Diocese was led by the Director of Finance, Investment and Administration, Fr. Cecilio Silwamba. Others included;\u00a0 Mwawi Shaba, the Caritas Secretary; Stephen Nkhata, Resource and Mobilization Officer; Memory Dzodzi, Human Resource Officer; Franklin Msiska, Development Desk Officer; James Kasambala, the newly appointed Farm Manager and Mr. Osward Mtupila, Diocesan Lawyer. The\u00a0 team of\u00a0 the previous owner was composed of Mr. Bernard Shwarz, his wife and\u00a0 Mr. Sam Kasambiza, an agent from Knight Frank ; a company that brokered the sale.\u00a0The ceremony went on very well to the satisfaction of both parties.<\/p>\n

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Signing ceremony: Fr Cecilio Silwamba signs documents as Karonga Diocese takes over Chipunga Farm<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Chipunga Farm covers 286.46 hectares of mountainous land of which approximately 40% is cleared, the remainder being woodland and built up area.<\/p>\n

The estate is engaged in crop production with existing major crops being Macadamia which covers a position of about 20.9 hectares and coffee 3.6 hectares. The farm also possesses facilities for livestock farming.<\/p>\n

The built up area comprises dwelling houses, offices. Store rooms, ablution block, water reservoirs, coffee drying tables, papery, receiving and fermentation tanks. However their conditions vary from good to dilapidated, typical for agricultural properties.<\/p>\n

Karonga Diocese intends to plant the majority of the hectares with coffee and also expand macadamia hectares . Karonga Diocese has taken a path towards self-sustenance through investments such as Chitipa Filling Station, which serves the whole district of Chitipa and surrounding areas. The Diocese also has Misuku Coffee Farm which covers 15 hectares, out of which 3.2 hectares have been developed. The other project in the pipeline is the\u00a0 Uzumala Farm in Rumphi District.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Stephen Nkhata (Resource Mobilisation Officer) Karonga Diocese continues to expand its income generating base and\u00a0 has recently acquired\u00a0 Chipunga Farm Limited with a financial loan from American Conference of Catholic Bishops. The previous owner of the company was Mr Bernard Shwarz. The official handovers took place on 4th January, 2018 at Chipunga Farm in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":539,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"iawp_total_views":25,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[74,131],"class_list":["post-538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chipunga-farm-limited","tag-chipunga-farm-limited","tag-karonga-diocese"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}