Pictured here – the proud Invegrow team after winning best SME Exhibitor Award at the MITF.
Invegrow has won Best SME Exhibitor Award at the 36th Malawi International Trade Fair (MITF) running from 21 until 31 May 2026 at Trade Fair Grounds in Blantyre. The award is thanks to a Standard Bank-sponsored Business Forum in which Invegrow was adjudicated most outstanding exhibitor.
The Business Forum is a structured platform intended to give companies a chance to secure contracts, explore joint ventures in B2B marketing and to network.
Invegrow (cultivation & retailing; industrial hemp products processing as well as cultivation and retailing of medicinal cannabis) is among Malawi cannabis value chain stakeholders at the annual fair. The others are Nexgen Limited (research, cultivation and medicinal cannabisretailing), MMC Laboratories (cultivation and retailing; processing and research) and Cann Leisure Centre (industrial hemp products).
The Cannabis Regulatory Authority (CRA) Malawi said Invegrow’s award highlights cannabis’s contribution to promoting economic stability through enhanced production and industrialization, in line with the 2026 fair theme. “This year’s theme is, ‘Promoting economic stability through enhanced production and industrialization’,” the CRA shared.
The award is also a vindication of Invegrow’s expanded role in Malawi’s evolving cannabis economy. At its farm in Nangula Estate outside Lilongwe, Invegrow has successfully carried out cannabis and hemp trials for the benefit of Malawian citizens, including prototypes of hemp-based low-cost housing proven well-suited to the African environment. It also champions and supports budding cannabis cooperatives in partnerships aimed at boosting ordinary smallholder farmers.
The MITF features over 200 exhibitors from various sectors including agriculture, manufacturing, mining, tourism, and ICT from Malawi and neighboring countries.
The 2026 MITF has seen the CRA on a charm offensive, reaching out to learners from schools around the country and sharing knowledge about cannabis, among other initiatives.
The authority is currently partnering law enforcement to encourage informal cannabis growers and traders to join the formal industry, motivating that operating legally is to their and the country’s best interests.
However many illegal growers cannot afford the high licences fees of up to $10 000 and most reportedly resent that none of the legal cannabis strains permitted are homegrown.
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