Declining local maize prices have put traders and the Malawi Government on a collision course as the entrepreneurs have resorted to defying an export ban in search of better prices. I wouldn’t know how much maize traders have because they don’t like declaring and it’s difficult to know how much maize we have. “Tanzania has enough maize, so those exports are heading to Rwanda and Kenya because there is food deficit that side. Our only hope is the maize in the fields which look promising, otherwise, we were not supposed to export this maize,” she said. In its December 2025 Maize Market Report, the International Food Policy Research Institute (Ifpri) confirmed the exports of local maize to Zambia, Tanzania and Mozambique.