Maize export ban costs Malawi k69bn - The Nation Online

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Maize export ban costs Malawi k69bn

Tinenenji Chalanda @ December 14, 2017 o Comments

Malawi has lost about K69 billion in potential export revenue due to the maize export ban

imposed after the 2016/17 harvesting period, a study by the International Food Policy Research

Institute (Ifpri) has estimated.

Findings of the study, prepared at the request of Britain's Department for International

Development (DfID) and the United States Agency for International Development (USaid)

estimate that local traders could have earned between K39 and K69 billion in gross revenues if

they were allowed to export to Kigali in Rwanda and between K29 and K54 billion for exports to

Dar es Salaam in Tanzania in August or September this year.







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