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Zim: Grain shortage hits
| This just in from the former Breadbasket of Africa... |
 (SomaliNet) Zimbabwe has registered a decrease in grain supply. This has resulted in the closing down of three of Zimbabwes major grain milling companies. "There is nothing at major millers. We have not been milling for two weeks now," commented an official at a milling company in Zimbabwes capital, Harare.
| "We have no idea why this might have happened..." |
There also complaints from grain milling companies in Zimbabwe that the Zimbabwe Grain milling Board has ignored them. "The major millers are without grain and we are not getting any explanation from the GMB, said another official.
| No doubt they're investigating... |
Zimbabwe has for a long time been suffering from the grain problem. "We last received grain in early June by rail from Mutare and we suspect it was imported from Beira," said a source from a major grain milling company in Zimbabwe. However, the government of Zimbabwe reveals that Zimbabwes harvests this year will sustain 12 million Zimbabweans. However, aid agencies do not buy the argument of Zimbabwes government. The Harare authorities two weeks ago began seizing maize from farmers with the GMB.
Posted by: Fred 2006-06-24 |
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