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To: *AfricaWatch; blam; Cincinatus' Wife; sarcasm; happygrl; Byron_the_Aussie; robnoel; GeronL; ...
Allowing the CIO to interfere without raising a hue and cry will undermine the credibility of any WFP report on Zimbabwse with the donor nations.

Zimbabwe was claiming a "bumper maize harvest" of 1.7 million tonnes but the Commercial Farmers Union had said during the summer that has just ended that less than 1/3 of the confiscated commercial farm land was still under cultivation.

There were also massive shortages of inputs (seed and fertilizer) at the beginning of the summer.

It is now winter. The standard winter crop in Zim is wheat (notwithstanding Ag Minister Made's attempt at promoting winter maize cultivation). See the article that I am also posting entitled "Huge wheat deficits feared"

2 posted on 06/20/2004 1:49:09 PM PDT by Clive
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To: Clive

Zim bump.


3 posted on 06/20/2004 5:09:34 PM PDT by blam
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