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Malawi to spend $20 mln on maize imports after poor harvest expected

By Mabvuto Banda

LILONGWE, April 1 (Reuters) – Malawi will set aside $20 million for imports of its staple maize in 2015 because floods and drought were expected to cause a substantial decrease in this year’s harvest, ministers said on Wednesday.

Torrential rains have forced Malawi, which had a bumper crop of 3.9 million tonnes in 2014 and a surplus of over a million tonnes, to declare half of…

Diblo Interview with G. Gondwe

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