{"id":245009,"date":"2026-09-20T19:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T17:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-relaxes-grain-import-regulations-amid-drought-fears-lower-harvest-forecast\/"},"modified":"2026-09-20T19:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T17:00:09","slug":"zimbabwe-relaxes-grain-import-regulations-amid-drought-fears-lower-harvest-forecast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-relaxes-grain-import-regulations-amid-drought-fears-lower-harvest-forecast\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe Relaxes Grain Import Regulations Amid Drought Fears, Lower Harvest Forecast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">Zimbabwe is preparing to reopen grain imports amid expectations of a lower harvest in the 2026\/2027 agricultural season, with authorities warning of possible drought conditions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">The move comes just months after the government reduced grain imports following an improvement in domestic production.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">Experts estimate that grain output could decline by approximately 1.6 million tonnes from the 2.68 million tonnes recorded during the previous season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nFollow us on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaIdDi8Bqbr263erhw1K\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">WhatsApp<\/a> | <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/allafrica\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">LinkedIn<\/a> for the latest&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202609180099.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zimbabwe is preparing to reopen grain imports amid expectations of a lower harvest in the 2026\/2027 agricultural season, with authorities warning of possible drought conditions. The move comes just months after the government reduced grain imports following an improvement in domestic production. Experts estimate that grain output could decline by approximately 1.6 million tonnes from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[258,256,4787,5140,11604,10765,7880,10453,257,14785,15434,254,4686,421],"class_list":["post-245009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-drought","tag-fears","tag-forecast","tag-grain","tag-harvest","tag-import","tag-news","tag-regulations","tag-relaxes","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245009","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=245009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}