Food crisis looms as farmers warn of total crop failure
Kenya’s food security threatened by floods devastating agricultural heartlands, including Rift Valley, Nyanza, Coastal areas, and Mount Kenya. Farmers foresee soaring food prices due to massive losses. Infrastructure damage reported in irrigation schemes; Mount Kenya farmers suffer replanting setbacks and rice farms submerged in Mwea.
In a devastating blow to Kenya’s food security, relentless floods have wreaked havoc across the nation’s agricultural heartlands. The heavy rains have left a trail of destruction in their wake, submerging and rendering inaccessible vast tracts of farmland in key regions such as the Rift Valley, Nyanza, Coastal areas, and around Mount Kenya.
Farmers predict the cost of food is headed for the skies and will balloon in the coming months as a result of the wave of destruction and huge losses on investments.
So bad is the situation that in some irrigation schemes, infrastructures like dykes and water canals have been destroyed.
In Mount Kenya region, farmers are struggling to come to terms with the massive losses, barely weeks after some of the replanted seeds after they had fallen victim to fake fertilizers.
In Mwea Irrigation scheme, rice farms have disappeared under water.
Source Link: https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/national/article/2001494684/food-crisis-looms-as-farmers-warn-of-total-crop-failure
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