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Food deficit not yet wiped out

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    Niger’s government hopes to be able to provide its most vulnerable populations with enough low-cost cereals to tide them over until the first cereal harvests in August, state officials said on Tuesday. In April, the government appealed for 60,000 mt of cereals to cover a shortfall of 163,000 mt in the 2000 agricultural season. So far about 24,000 mt have been obtained through donations and purchases by the state, Nafoga Adamou, coordinator of Niger’s Early Warning Unit told IRIN.

    [For more information see separate item titled ‘NIGER: State, donors confront food crisis’]

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