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The crop hit a 40-year low of 47.9 million tonnes in 1998, followed by another poor harvest of 54.7 million in 1999, forcing the country to ask the United States and the European Union for food aid, which was granted.
-My God, how famine was avoided? This result is almost as worst as that -of 1921-22 famine.
Alexandre Fenelon