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No. 00284

August 23-29, 2003

Street Talk

 

What good are weather forecasts to farmers?

Villagers, mostly peasant farmers, seem to have lost faith in weather forecasts. When forecasts, they say, indicate that the zone will be hit by drought what eventually torments them are floods.
by Raymond John

 

Happy Mollel
Ngaramtoni -Arumeru

 

David Daniel
Ndatu Kilala village, Arumeru

Changing weather conditions have been confusing local farmers throughout the country and thus badly affecting the agricultural sector which is highly dependent on rain seasons.

The weather forecasts from the national weather department have also been inaccurate, unreliable and therefore no longer a good source of information.

We feel it is high time that this department gets new equipment and more advanced technology, not to forget, better weather experts.

The weather department, had predicted famine this year but thanksfully, they were wrong and rain fell in most parts of the country.

Most farmers in the country rely on their natural and traditional methods of predicting the weather because the modern ones are quite unreliable.

When farmers therefore lose track of the weather, they also lose direction and since the whole country depends on farmers then this becomes national disaster.

 

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