El Niño Drought Reduces Zambian Corn Harvest to 16-Year Low
This article is for subscribers only.
Zambia’s corn harvest will be the lowest since 2008, dropping 54%, after El Niño brought the most severe dry spell in at least four decades earlier this year, wiping out crops.
Farmers produced an estimated 1.5 million tons of the staple food, compared with 3.26 million tons a year earlier, Zambia Statistics Agency Statistician-General Goodson Sinyenga told reporters on Thursday in Lusaka, the capital.