八点最热报 | 受到厄尔尼诺现象的影响，非洲东南部国家马拉维正遭受严重干旱，导致农作物产量大幅减少。马拉维总统昨天宣布，马拉维全国28个行政区当中的23个，即日起进入“灾难状态”。受灾地区因为降雨量不足和长期干旱等影响，导致粮食生产前景堪忧。（主播：萧慧敏）
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00:05 The extreme weather caused by the El Nino phenomenon has had a huge negative impact on global agriculture.
00:10 Malawi, a country in the southeast of Africa, is also affected by extreme weather.
00:15 Yesterday, the Malawi president announced that 23 of the 28 new policies in Malawi will be in a disaster state from today.
00:23 The affected areas are in dire straits due to the lack of rainfall and the long-term drought.
00:30 The initial assessment shows that about 2 million farmers in Malawi are affected.
00:35 Of these, the corn, which has a population of nearly 750,000, is the first to be affected.
00:39 The production of soybeans, peanuts and other important crops has also dropped significantly.
00:43 The Malawi president said that a country with a population of 20 million needs nearly 600,000 tons of food aid to make up for the food shortages caused by natural disasters.
00:52 He therefore called on the international community to provide help.
00:57 The El Nino phenomenon has seriously affected Malawi, a country in the southeast of Africa.
01:02 The production of crops has significantly decreased.
01:05 Farmers say that they could have harvested 20 to 50 kilograms of corn.
01:10 But due to the extreme weather, the rainfall has also decreased significantly, causing the corn to wither.
01:16 The rain has stopped. It's November now. The rain has stopped.
01:22 It's December now. The rain has stopped.
01:27 The rain has stopped.
01:32 While the Malawi president announced that the country is in a disaster state,
01:36 the World Food Programme and local authorities have also launched a food distribution plan.
01:41 A total of 7,000 households have benefited.
01:43 The food that we are distributing today is for the season that we are in.
01:49 But there is an additional type of hunger that we are facing because of the dry spell that we have experienced.
01:58 For Nino, it has been hit hard.
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