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 | | Harrison Banda, executive director of the Millers Association of Zambia, welcomed the extension of the import programme, originally scheduled to end on 31 December, because it would allow millers enough time to bring in much needed stocks. |
 | | According to the Zambia National Farmers Union (ZNFU), of the 200,000 mt of duty-free maize the government had allowed millers to import from Africa's largest maize grower, South Africa, only about 7,000 mt had been trucked in by 6 December, leaving a shortfall of about 193,000 mt. |
 | | Although the food crisis has hit rural southern Zambia hard, it has remained unnoticeable in the capital, Lusaka, where fast-food shops are packed with diners and supermarkets are buzzing with big-spending Christmas shoppers. |
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