Zimbabwe Launches Overdue Plan to Assist Drought-Hit Farmers

5 June 2013

Lupane, Zimbabwe — Ticky Mletshwa, a 46-year-old small-scale farmer, has always done the same thing in his plot deep in the dry rural areas of Lupane, about 175 kilometres north of Bulawayo, Zimbabwe's second largest city.

Here each year, with the regularity of clockwork, he plants maize, waits for the rains, then "cries" as he watches his crops fail after yet another period of unreliable rainfall.

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