Zambia: Food prices soar as crops wither
1,193 views · Published 26 January 2016 · 2:46 · Indexed 14 November 2026
Channel: CGTN Africa · 2016 · News & Politics
Production of Zambia's staple maize crop is expected to decline by at least 30 percent this year as a ravaging drought takes toll. Thousands of farmers in the country's most productive agricultural regions have seen their crops wiped out due to poor rainfall. Farai Mwakutuya has more on that story
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