Rains arrive, but harvest projected to fall 80%

Friday, March 23, 2018

Angelinah Siwawa farm at Tsamaya PIC. KEOAGILE BONANG

The Food and Agriculture Organisation expects the country’s cereal production to drop by 78% by the time this year’s harvest is over, leaving thousands at the mercy of government’s emergency drought relief programme. Staff Writer, MBONGENI MGUNI reports

The rains finally arrived, but they were too late. The ploughing period, during which government provides inputs such as tillage services, seeds and fertilisers, was extended, but it was too late.

Farmers who had craned their necks to the sky fruitlessly in November, December and January, raced to their fields with the stubborn hope only farmers have, but it was too late.

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