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Climate extremes, policies confuse crop choices for Malawi farmers
Published Mon, Aug 14, 2017 · 09:50 PM
Lilongwe, Malawi
ELIAS Kanyangale is ecstatic about his maize harvest. Balancing on a homemade ladder, the farmer retrieves cobs from a full granary, the bounty of this year's good rains, which broke three years of drought in Malawi.
Mr Kanyangale, 44, from Kalumbu village, part of the capital city Lilongwe, says his five-tonne harvest of maize is double the previous year's crop, and he has some soya beans too.
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