Picture/story by Sakala Reporters The draught that has hit Lusaka province, Eastern province and parts of the Copperbelt province of Zamb...
The draught that has hit Lusaka province, Eastern province and parts of the Copperbelt province of Zambia are likely to affect the 2019 harvesting season which is just around the corner. A visit to the farms and maize fields by the Sakala Reporters news crews showed evidence by just looking at how the most essential grown crop (maize) has been affected by the severe draught that has been in place for over a month now.
Sakala Reporters noticed how the maize plants have become yellow or completely dried up. It's a bad sign that the haverst in the affected provinces of Zambia will be highly affected in short the harvest the harvest will be poor owing to the fact that most farmers depends on the rains to grow their various crops because a greater percentage of them have no other irrigation technologies to use for irrigation purposes.
Zambia which is one of the most impoverished nations according to the World Bank. It's said sustainable agriculture will get the country out of the poverty trap if most poor families could afford at least 3 meals in a day and better if those meals are to be descent ones. From our reports we wish to urge the people in the affected areas to be calm because it's not the first time we have been faced with such a situation and the experts and people are appealing to govt to do something that will prevent further mealie meal hikes as mealie meal at the moment a 25kg breakfast meal is going at K90 in most parts of Lusaka which already is a heavy burden on the minds and pockets of the majority resident working class who are mostly from the informal sector. An expert says that the draught may have been caused by deforestation a practice of cutting trees any how for burning charcoal and for use in other ways.
Sakala Reporters
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