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Food shortages force government to import maize

    NAIROBI
    Tanzania is to import maize to cope with a crop failure that has plagued over a million people throughout the country, news organisations reported. Deputy Agriculture Minister Ismail Ivwata told a news conference on Wednesday the country had entered into contracts with four companies to bring in 100,000 mt of maize, at a cost of US $15.6 million. Crops failed due to a drought that began last October, and the government's own grain reserves are depleted.

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