Brace for the summer of our discontent

Recently, government announced it would spend nearly P900 million on various drought relief interventions, assessments of the 2017/18 yields necessitated the declaration of a drought year.

The funds will include support for rural households whose incomes were decimated by a poor season, the hopeful rainfall forecasts that were made giving way to a prolonged dry spell that devastated all hopes. Specifically government will pay 30% of the seasonal loans to farmers who got loans from CEDA and the National Development Bank, to mitigate losses, while also providing support to vulnerable households, orphans and primary school children.