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Lower shire to face food shortage

 

The Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET) suggests households in the lower shire will experience hunger as they are yet to recover from the impact of two consecutive years of drought and the significant reduction in cotton production.

In its February to September 2017 Malawi Food Outlook report, FEWS NET says this is expected to lead to a decrease in income at the macroeconomic as well as household level.

“Many farmers significantly reduced the area planted for tobacco and cotton because of consecutive poor marketing years for these crops, as well as losses incurred from two consecutive years of drought,” reads the report in part.

However, the report predicts that the trend in which food prices are decreasing is expected to continue through May as a result of humanitarian assistance that is currently being rendered.

 

 

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