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Aid workers offload maize meal for victims of Cyclone Idai at Siverstream Estates in Chipinge, Zimbabwe. [Photo: Reuters]
HARARE- Zimbabwe has up to seven months supply of maize after drought ravaged crops and it needs to start importing grain now to avert shortages, the secretary for agriculture said on Friday.
Besides the El Niño-induced drought, Zimbabwe was also hit by a cyclone, which devastated the eastern parts of the country, sweeping away what remained of the crop in the area.
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