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Zimbabwe to import 250,000 tonnes of maize from Mexico

Published June 23, 2016 Updated June 23, 2016 02:52pm

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By Shoaib Ur Rehman

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HARARE: Drought-hit Zimbabwean will import more than 250,000 tonnes of maize from Mexico to fill the shortfall caused by the severe drought sweeping through the southern Africa, the agriculture minister said on Thursday.

Joseph Made said Zimbabwe would also import the staple crop from neighbours South Africa and Zambia, as well as from the Ukraine but did not give precise figures for these imports.

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