Shashe Farmers Pin Hopes On Resuscitated Irrigation Scheme

Farmers in Shashe, a rural community in Beitbridge, are struggling to make ends meet due to the drought experienced in the last season.

Shashe River, normally the source of water in difficult seasons, has dried up due to the El Nino induced drought which ravaged the southern Africa region in the 2015/2016 agricultural season.

Last season, 95 percent of the crop in the Shashe area was a write off, while the community's only source of livelihood, the Jalukanga irrigation scheme, has not been functioning for the past seven years.

The Financial Gazette's Agricultural News witnessed desperate villagers waiting for maize distribution last week.

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