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In its quest to achieve Malawi 2063 objectives, the country must adopt inclusive digitalisation processes across all sectors. Digital agriculture innovations, technologies and services rely on a robust agricultural data infrastructure and good agricultural data management practices. Quality data provide the basis for digital advisory services to farmers, provide the basis for policy decision-making and inform investment decisions by investors. Although several organisations are already engaged in agricultural data management, a dialogue with national stakeholders confirmed the existence of fragmented databases, an unwillingness to share data, operational inefficiencies, data collection fatigue, unsuited policies and a data power imbalance. There is a lack of co-ordination for managing agricultural data as an important resource in the country.