[Quick, unplug Grandma's heart-lung machine: Electricity use in Topeka is making it impossible to farm in Malawi!!]
Because of the dwindling in agriculture production, farmers have no alternative to have a health or nutritious meal, leaving families, mainly pregnant mothers and children vulnerable.[Oops, never mind: It turns out that Malawi has been growing surplus food for five years now]
APA-Lilongwe (Malawi) Malawi’s Secretary for Agriculture and Food Security Andrew Daudi on Tuesday said that Malawi has recorded another food surplus of 800,000 metric tonnes of maize this year.
Daudi said in Lilongwe that during the 2009/2010 farming season the country produced 3.2 million metric tonnes of maize, surpassing the normal 2.4 million metric tonnes of maize which the nation requires.
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Malawi has been recording surplus food for the past five years.
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That second link is to a pay-wall. Here's a link to what I assume is the same story:
http://www.afriqueavenir.org/en/2010/06/22/malawi%E2%80%99s-farmers-produce-800000-metric-tonnes-in-food-surplus/
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