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Buy toxic maize now to prevent imminent deaths

Three months after the Government announced a bumper maize harvest across the country, even in traditionally ‘hungry’ districts in Eastern Province, disaster has struck.

Farmers are stuck with 2.3 million bags of maize poisoned by a fungus, aflatoxin, a condition widely associated with poor storage.

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