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Concerns over food security mounts amid drop in grains

Concerns over food security mounts amid drop in grains

Written by Pearl Coetzee on 03 August 2015.

WINDHOEK, 03 AUG (NAMPA) – The decrease in Namibia’s total coarse grain production, which includes white maize, sorghum, pearl millet and wheat has raised serious alarm on food security in the country.
The national aggregate coarse grain production is estimated at 67 800 metric tonnes, which in output is 46 per cent below average and 49 per cent lower than the previous season’s production, according to the Ministry of Agriculture, Water and Forestry (MAWF).
These figures were contained in the ministry's lat ...

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