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Maize harvest forecast

    JOHANNESBURG

    The Zimbabwean government said on Monday that it expected Zimbabwe to produce nearly 2.2 million mt of maize in the current farming year, up from the 1.5 million mt produced in 1999.

    However, a spokeswoman for the Commercial Grain Producers Association in Harare told IRIN that “at best” the association felt that only 1.7 million mt of maize would be produced.

    “That figure of 2.2 million was the official estimate by the government’s crop forecasting committee,” she said. “The committee is likely to meet towards the end of June to revise that estimate.”

    This article was produced by IRIN News while it was part of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Please send queries on copyright or liability to the UN. For more information: https://shop.un.org/rights-permissions

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