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Mozambique will have to import about 444,000 mt of grain from now to April 2001, to cover the deficit in national production, mainly caused by the floods that hit the southern and central regions of the country in February and March.
The country’s leading newspaper ‘Noticias’ on Tuesday quoted the government’s domestic trade directorate as saying that because of lower production this year, the country would have to import, as food aid or commercially, 144,000 mt of maize, 242,000 mt of rice and 194,000 mt of wheat.
It said that in recent years, Mozambique had produced a maize surplus, and there were high hopes that the country could also become self-sufficient in rice. This year, Mozambique’s total rice production is about 75,000 mt, but the requirements has been put at over 300,000 mt.
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