March 17, 2010, 4:30 pm
LILONGWE (Reuters) - Malawi expects another surplus white maize crop this year of 3 million tonnes, but this will be smaller than last year's harvest due to bad weather and pests, the Ministry of Agriculture said on Wednesday. A seed and fertilizer subsidy programme supported by the British government has turned the southern African nation into a regional breadbasket in the last five years. The estimated 3 million-tonne harvest forecast for this year beats the country's domestic need of 2.4 million tonnes.
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