Malawi To Buy Uganda Maize

By Cyprian Musoke MALAWI is to buy maize from Uganda to avert a food shortage caused by floods which damaged the country’s crop. The deal was struck at the SMART partnership meeting at Munyonyo recently. Malawi’s envoy to Uganda, Jessie P. A Ndisale, while meeting the Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Rebecca Kadaga, at the parliamentary buildings yesterday said since Uganda had a lot of maize, she was arranging to buy “lots of maize from Uganda.” She said last year Malawi sold maize to Kenya. Ndisale congratulated Kadaga upon being appointed deputy Speaker, saying it was a big inspiration to the women of Uganda. Kadaga had earlier met the Cuban Charge de Affairs, Juan Carlos Arencibia, with whom they discussed the coming inter-parliamentary meeting. Kadaga said under the Plan for Modernisation of Agriculture “we are going to zone the country so that we get out of this business of having all parts of Uganda grow maize, and we end up with a glut.” She suggested that Ndisale shifts her office to Kampala for better coordination between the two countries. Ends