Finance Minister Tendai Biti announced on Thursday that growth projections for the current year had to be reduced and inflation figures revised higher, mainly because diamonds did not produce as much income as had been expected.
Last year Biti predicted that revenue from mining and agriculture would help the country's economy to grow by over 9 per cent in 2012.
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