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ECONOMY-ZAMBIA: ZAMBIANS FACE HUNGER DESPITE MAIZE SURPLUS.

Publication: Interpress Service
Publication Date: 01-FEB-07
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
by Isabel Chimangeni

LUSAKA, Feb. 1, 2007 (IPS/GIN) -- Zambia expects a maize surplus this season but it is still unlikely that the food will reach many of the 58 percent of Zambians who are classified as extremely poor.

The ministry of agriculture recently released a national food balance sheet showing that the country will have a surplus of 160,000 metric tonnes of maize during the 2006-2007 growing season. In the 2005-2006 season, the output was 63 percent above the previous season and 54 percent above the five-year average.

Only a few years ago, such a surplus of Zambians' main staple...

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