The largest rubber plantation
in Sub-Saharan Africa
The total estate size is 3,771 hectares of which 2,656 is planted.
Rubber
Timber
Two rubber factories and one timber mill.
One factory produces Ribbed Smoked Sheets
The other factory produces Technically Specified Rubber.
Rubber
Timber
Approximately 2,000
staff are employed
employees are a critical ingredient in the long-term
sustainability of the estate
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Welcome to Vizara
Vizara Plantation is the only commercially viable Rubber Plantation in Malawi and Southern Africa.
The founders of this company, the Moir brothers set about planting the seedlings on the North Western shores of lake Malawi, near the frontier lakeshore trading port of Nkhata Bay. Trials in the early 1880’s were a success, and the Moir brothers soon set about creating Southern Africa’s first rubber estate – Vizara, meaning in the local tribal Tonga language “horn of plenty”.
Our Products
Timber
Quality Export Timber
Mahogany, teak, jarrah are all names that you'd usually associate with high quality furniture. Unfortunately, demand for these timbers has seen vast swathes of deciduous and tropical forest habitat destroyed. Items now made from these trees are incredibly expensive and ecologically.
About Our Company
Historical Background
Vizara Plantations is the only commercially viable Rubber Plantation in Malawi and Southern Africa. Rubber was first planted here at the turn of the last century, by African Lakes Corporation plc. (ALC), a company registered in Scotland. A major programme to expand this enterprise began in the early 1970s. In 1985, ALC acquired Chombe Tea Estate from Guthries, uprooted the Tea bushes and replanted the area with Rubber.
Change of Ownership
In 2004, after over 120 years of ownership, African Lakes Corporation sold the estate to Nyasa Investments, the new owners. They too have made significant further investments by carrying out large scale new plantings and re plantings and establishment of new Timber Mill .The Estate now comprises 2,656 hectares of area under rubber plantation , rubber processing factories and the timber mill.