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CAPE TOWN Homme Nike Air Max 270 Elemental Or Soldes , Jan. 15 (Xinhua) -- South Africa, previously an exporter of grain, will have to import five to six million tonnes of both white and yellow maize due to a severe drought, Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Senzeni Zokwana said on Friday.


Combining with the predicted regional needs such as Zimbabwe, Lesotho Homme Nike Air Max 270 Premium Noir Soldes , Namibia, Botswana and Swaziland, import needs will be at 10. 9 million tonnes covering other commodities such as soya and wheat, the minister said at a press briefing in Pretoria.


From the food security perspective, South Africa's infrastructure might struggle to cope with the volume of maize imports required if a drought exacerbated by the El Nino weather phenomenon further decimates the local crop, Zokwana said.


Zokwana said South Africa's agricultural production has been severely affected by the drought Chaussures Nike Air Max 270 Light Bone Homme Soldes , veld conditions are very poor and crop farmers could not plant their crops during the planting season due to inadequate rainfall.


South Africa is currently in the grips of the worst drought in 23 years as a result of the El Nino weather pattern. The last El Nino that affected South Africa so extremely was back in 1992. The current El Nino is worldwide and is estimated to last for several more months.


Most areas of the country received below-normal rainfall coupled with high temperatures during the late part of the 201415 summer season, according to Zokwana.


The Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (DAFF) has reprioritised 305.3 million rand (about 18.5 million US dollars) towards drought relief.


In addition, the DAFF, together with the Department of Rural Development and Land Reform, has committed about 66.4 million rand on Land Care Programmes for 201516. Land Care is a community based and government supported approach to the sustainable management and use of agricultural natural resources.


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He said the DAFF, through the Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs, has made a request to the National Treasury for additional funds to further assist the farmers to deal with the current drought disaster.


The drought has reached crisis point. Dam levels are down in all provinces, standing at 57 percent of capacity as of last week, compared to 82 percent for the same time last year.


This represents a major economic and humanitarian crisis as food security is placed under threat and the livelihood of those in the agricultural sector is placed in jeopardy, the opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) said.


The most recent GDP figures for Quarter 3 of 2015 reveal that the agricultural sector contracted by more than 12 percent quarter on quarter Femme Nike Air Max 270 Blanche Orange Soldes , largely because of the drought's effects. Moreover, the sector has contracted 16.2 percent year-on-year.


SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 4 (Xinhua) -- A group of militiamen, who were in dispute with the U.S. government over the use of federal lands, on Sunday continued to stay at a federal building they took a day ago in the northwestern state of Oregon.


The incident at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge took place after a demonstration on Saturday in Burns, a small town about 450 km southeast of Portland Femme Nike Air Max 270 Triple Blanche Soldes , Oregon, in support of two local ranchers facing additional prison time for arson.


Facebook, he called on "all patriots" across the United States to join him.


Some militiamen told OregonLive earlier that there were about 150 of them, but a couple who delivered food to the site estimated that there were just 15.


Cliven Bundy staged in April last year an armed standoff with federal agents in Bunkerville, Nevada, over grazing rights on federal land. It lasted several weeks Femme Nike Air Max 270 Flight Or Soldes , drawing national attention and the participation of militiamen with assault rifles from around the country.


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Bundy and other militia members, who gathered in Burns last month, were upset over the looming prison sentences for local ranchers Dwight and Steven Hammond.


Dwight Hammond Jr., 73, and his son Steven Hammond, 46 Nike Air Vapormax 2018 Soldes , were convicted in 2012 for setting fire in 2001 and 2006 to public land adjacent to their ranch. The 2001 blaze burned 139 acres of public land, according to court documents; the 2006 fire -- for which only Steven was convicted -- burned another acre of public land.


The father and son served prison terms of three months and one year respectively.


However, under the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996, which was passed in the wake of the Oklahoma City bombing, the mandatory minimum punishment for arson committed against federal property was upped to five years in federal prison.


A federal judge in October ruled the Hammonds to return to prison for about another four years each.


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Dwight Hammond told supporters at his home Saturday that he and his son would surrender to authorities Monday.


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W. Alan Schroeder, the Hammonds' lawyer, wrote to Sheriff David Ward of Harney County, where the wildlife refuge is located Nike Air VaporMax Off White Soldes , to distance his clients from the militiamen, saying "neither Ammon Bundy nor anyone within his grouporganization speak for the Hammond Family."


Even Cliven Bundy, Ammon's father, expressed his hesitation over the protests. "I don't quite understand how much they're going to accomplish," he told Oregon Public Broadcasting. "I think of this this way: what business

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