Tanzania to Sell 1 Million Tons of Corn to Drought-Hit Kenya
- Government received formal request for sale from Kenya
- Kenya has a shortage of corn after drought curbed output
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Tanzania is set to sell 1 million tons of corn to neighboring Kenya where a drought curbed production and caused prices of the grain to soar.
A formal request for the sale from Kenya has been received, Tanzania’s state minister for agriculture, Omary Mgumba, said Friday in an emailed statement without giving details of the transaction. The East African nation is also in the process of selling 700,000 tons of corn to Zimbabwe, Mgumba said.