GROW DROUGHT-RESISTANT CROPS - AGRIC MINISTER
MBABANE – In anticipation of an acute decline in rainfall in the upcoming months, the minister of Agriculture has called on farmers in the country to grow drought-resistant crops.
Drought-resistant crops are plants that can tolerate high temperatures, require less water and take a short period of time to grow. These include sunflower, cotton, beans, millet, sorghum, okra, and legumes. Minister Jabulani Mabuza said according to climate prediction, the country is anticipated to have inadequate rainfall. The minister said the country had received depressed rainfalls despite that it was already the rainy season.
Improve
Mabuza urged farmers to focus on early maturity drought-resistant crop varieties and small grains to improve their yields as the country prepared for erratic rainfall in the 2018/ 2019 summer cropping season. “The erratic temperatures and rainfall signify climate change and therefore, farmers in the country need to cultivate crops that require less water during this period.”
Varieties
He said in the absence of adequate rainfall, farmers should invest on early maturity drought-resistant crop varieties and small grains after the predictions of poor rains in the summer cropping season. “This will increase the farmers’ chances of yielding in an inconsistent rainfall season.” The minister encouraged farmers to adapt and to alleviate effects of climate change.
Suppliers
This season, he said, farmers had to work closely with their extension officers and input suppliers. This, he said, was to enable the farmers to buy appropriate seeds that could withstand the drought spell. Mabuza said according to weather forecasts, it was anticipated that the period of January and February would have the lowest rainfall collection. He further said farmers rearing cattle should start collecting bales so that their cattle could have feed during the dry period. Weather forecasters have said the rainfall season points to an El Nino effect. El Nino is the warming of ocean currents off the South American coast around December and causes below normal rainfall patterns and above normal temperatures in specific areas around the world.
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