Large areas of southern Africa, suffering from drought after several years of dry conditions, will likely see farm output slide this year, a regional body said on Tuesday. Regional breadbasket South Africa, which usually exports maize to its neighbours, is due to produce only enough of the staple food for its own population in 2004, the Southern African Development Community (SADC) said. This raises the prospects for extra imports from outside the region. The United Nation's World Food Programme has been providing rations to 6,5 million people in southern Africa, mostly in Zimbabwe where economic decline has exacerbated patchy drought.