Budget priorities favouring consumption over productivity-enhancing investments threaten Malawi’s ambition to transform agriculture into a driver of economic growth under Malawi 2063 (MW2063), a new study has warned. Presenting the findings at a dissemination conference in Lilongwe, Pangapanga-Phiri said the priority should be ensuring agricultural spending drives structural transformation. Here we talk about large-scale farming, research, extension, markets, value addition and mechanisation,” he said. Although government has allocated K1.145 trillion to the reformed CDF, agriculture remains largely absent from constituency invest-ment priorities, which continue to focus on roads, bridges and other infrastructure. Therefore, other very important sectors like agricultural research, extension, livestock development and agribusiness are being neglected,” he said.