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Bumper maize crop expected

    JOHANNESBURG

    Namibia will this year reap a larger than expected crop of maize and pearl millet and has ruled out imports of grain until early next year, a spokesman for the Namibian Agronomic Board said on Friday.

    “We’ve had a very good maize harvest averaging three to three and a half mt per hectare,” the board’s Jurgen Hoffman told Reuters. Another board member said the white maize crop was estimated at 38,750 mt after long soaking rains over most of the country in the first four months of the year.

    Last season Namibian farmers produced 11,510 mt of white maize, 3,420 mt of wheat and 56,000 mt of pearl millet.
    The country also imported 66,777 mt of white maize, mainly from South Africa, and 47,458 mt of wheat, which satisfied total requirements.
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