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WINTER maize production plays a vital role in boosting the country’s food security and helping Zambia move towards achieving the 10 million tonnes per annum target.<\/p>\n
Over the years, Zambia has depended so much on rain-fed maize production which has resulted into the country having low yields in an event of low rainfall.<\/p>\n
This year, the country has been hit by a drought which has led to maize production dropping to 1.5 million from the more than three tonnes it records every year.<\/p>\n
Currently, the…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> WINTER maize production plays a vital role in boosting the country’s food security and helping Zambia move towards achieving the 10 million tonnes per annum target. Over the years, Zambia has depended so much on rain-fed maize production which has resulted into the country having low yields in an event of low rainfall. This year, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":177240,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[825],"tags":[258,256,6557,5074,4536,257,7544,4586,254,22052,4709,881,8982],"class_list":["post-177239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zambia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-boost","tag-food","tag-maize","tag-news","tag-production","tag-security","tag-south-africa-today","tag-winter","tag-zambia","tag-zambia-news","tag-zambias"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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