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2023/24 REMINISCENT ( UNFORGETTABLE) GROWING SEASON TO FARMERS

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 "I have a big farmland measuring more than one acre and a half. Together with the children I stay with, we farm on this land. With good rains, I harvest 20-50kg bags of maize. This year, to be honest, I have harvested nothing."   Farming practices like ploughing, making ridges, planting crops, weeds removal and many others to be done it is not easy because it needs a lot of power, it takes time for a one practice to be completed if the workers are few, but a farmer sacrifice his/her self in order to enjoy at the end of the growing season because it's when a farmer sells crops which have been harvested. This happens almost each and every year but this year the story has changed, farmers are just singing that complaintive song " I have harvested nothing", " I have harvested nothing",  2023/24 growing season is unforgettable to many farmers, season of El Niño, El Niño is a Spanish word which means boy child, but the word was taken to mention the situat...