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How to grow food in drought-hit Zimbabwe? Add irrigation
2016-06-01 02:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Several rivers pass from Zimbabwe's lush Eastern highlands through the lowlands of drought-hit Chipinge, Mutare and Chimanimani districts. But while river water is plentiful, hard-up farmers have no way to get enough of it to their fields. "We did not harvest anything in the past two seasons," said Amon Vhumbu, the traditional leader of a small, isolated village in Chipinge district, where many fields have been left barren by drought, despite a river flowing nearby. "As you can see, without...
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