Malagasy rice will not be subsidized!

Airplane crash avoided

According to the ?Gazette of the Grande Ile”, ?an air crash failed to take place yesterday, on the flight Antananarivo – Toliara.  Indeed, the Boeing 5 RMFB of the company Air Madagascar having to join Toliara yesterday morning, initially showed a certain delay on takeoff.  The worst happened approximately thirty minutes after take off when the plane suddenly dropped causing panic aboard.? The pilotes and crew did a good job however and where able to bring the plane back to Antananarivo without damage.

Madagascar admitted within the SADC

According to Madagascar Tribune ?That was confirmed by official sources yesterday:  the candidature of Madagascar was approved by the top of the Community of Development of Southern Africa (SADC).  This, as a member of this regional community?

Malagasy rice will not be subsidized! 

L?Express of Madagascar reports the information received from the minister of agronomy. “On the basis of the principle of the public-private partnership and in the name of the compliance with the rules of the market economy, the government does not intend to import rice to act on the prices.  We either do not plan to resort to subsidies.  It is not any more question of returning to these practices of socialism “.  According to l?Express, “the minister Harison Randriarimanana was clear and categorical yesterday in front of the journalists to precise the position of the government regarding the recent price increase.  “The ministry of agronomy is to provide the techniques, the good seeds, of manures at low prices, and to assist the peasants in the control of water so that the local rice production manages to cover the totality of our needs”, the minister said. The minister also pointed out that at the time of the marketing year 2001-2002 with exemptions granted to imported rice, paddy was not worth more than 450 Fmg to the peasants.  It is now payed 2000 fmg. Harison Randriarimanana does not dissimulate his satisfaction that today the farmers are rewarded for their hard labour.