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agriculture Dry spell to hit maize output

March 7 2013 at 08:00am
By Reuters

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Dry weather conditions have hit the main maize growing areas in South Africa, wilting the crop and dashing prospects for better yields this year. The provinces of Free State and North West, which together produce more than half of the country’s total maize crop, have been the hardest hit by the dry conditions in recent weeks after good rains earlier in the growing season. “There will be food in the country, but it will not be like we anticipated earlier,” Jannie de Villiers, the chief executive of farmers group Grain SA, said on the sidelines of the organisation’s annual meeting in Bothaville. – Reuters


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