Record $353 Million Malawi Corn Imports Seen as Shortages Loom
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Malawi plans to spend 250 billion kwacha ($353 million) importing a record amount of corn as about half the country’s population of 17 million faces food shortages.
The southern African nation is looking to Europe for the imports as its neighbors, including Zambia and South Africa, produced less corn because of the El Nino weather pattern, Agriculture Minister George Chaponda told lawmakers Wednesday in the capital, Lilongwe.