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Hunger crisis pushes down agriculture fair turnout in Malawi
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Xinhua News Agency
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August 3, 2006
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Hunger crisis pushes down agriculture fair turnout in Malawi
LUSAKA, Aug. 3 (Xinhua) -- The hunger crisis haunting in Malawi
since 2003 has pushed down the number of participants of the annual
national agriculture fair, Nation Online of Malawi reported Thursday.
It quoted economist Sadwick Mtonakutha as saying that the number
of participants started declining after the 2003 hunger crisis that
left the farmers of the country with nothing to display.
During the first fair 64 companies participated, in the second
fair the number dropped to 42. The number dropped further to 25
during the third fair and now only 24 participants have confirmed
their participation in the fair scheduled to take ...