Gov't digs deeper to bail out farmers

Drought has become a near constant companion for the local farming sector PIC: MORERI SEJAKGOMO
Drought has become a near constant companion for the local farming sector PIC: MORERI SEJAKGOMO

President Mokgweetsi Masisi has declared 2017/18 an arable agricultural drought year, following the second drought assessment in six months. Farmers will receive a range of subsidies, including a 25% discount on livestock feed, as a result of a disastrous season. Mmegi correspondent GOITSEMODIMO KAELO reports

Drought and Household Food Security Assessment and Analysis report conducted in April/May this year found that a poor harvest from 2017/18 had left hundreds of thousands of families across the country at the mercy of government’s emergency drought relief programme.

Now an update of that report conducted between October and November has established that the situation has worsened with livestock and wildlife also affected. The second assessment was carried out to determine changes that may have taken place subsequent to the first one.

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