3 After a particularly large maize harvest in the 2014/15 season, of 14,3 million tonnes, commercial maize production dropped last season and is estimated even lower for 2016/17, at just 7,2 million tonnes. We are thus likely to need up to 4 million tonnes of imported maize this year. 1  As measured by headline inflation excluding food, non-alcoholic beverages, petrol and energy prices.
Through a presidential decree a financial stability board has been created, on which there are representatives from the central bank, the ministry, the deposit insurance institute and the regulators. The secretariat is housed within the central bank and a lot of the work in the financial stability department will feed into the financial stability board.