Table 3.
Maize production zone | Average maize production |
Long-Rains 2017 |
Short Rains 2017 |
Long Rains 2018 |
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Long rains | Short rains | Average loss | Estimated loss | Average loss | Estimated loss | Estimated loss | Average loss | |
(1000 tonnes) | (1000 tonnes) | (%) | (1000 tonnes) | (%) | (1000 tonnes) | (%) | (1000 tonnes) | |
Lowland Tropics | 26 | 16 | 26 | 7 | 36 | 6 | 59 | 15 |
Dry Mid-altitude | 17 | 24 | 14 | 2 | 32 | 8 | 56 | 10 |
Dry-Transitional | 111 | 106 | 6 | 7 | 21 | 22 | 56 | 62 |
Moist-transitional | 1081 | 383 | 29 | 317 | 31 | 120 | 32 | 345 |
Highlands | 898 | 9 | 38 | 340 | 10 | 1 | 28 | 250 |
Moist Mid-altitude | 279 | 180 | 50 | 139 | 39 | 70 | 34 | 94 |
Other | 333 | 95 | 34 | 112 | 32 | 30 | 32 | 107 |
Grand total | 2745 | 814 | 34 | 924 | 32 | 257 | 32 | 883 |