Malawi's ministry of agriculture did not respond to a request for comment.

Phone numbers for Mozambique's ministry of agriculture were not in service or rang unanswered.

The plants had been imported from Honduras via the Netherlands, the French ministry of agriculture said.

Hence the interminable and inordinately bitter battle between the Russian ministry of agriculture and SPI Spirits.

The agreement follows an inspection visit by the Egyptian ministry of agriculture to the Republic last week.