Roundup: El Nino-induced drought impacts haunt farmers in Southern Africa amid crop planting season

NAMPA / Xinhua

2024-12-23

JOHANNESBURG, Dec. 23 (Xinhua) -- With December ushering in the 2024/2025 summer crop planting season, Derek Mathews was cautious about the task. The scar of the disastrous 2023/2024 harvest season remained raw as El Nino's devastating effects wiped out 70 percent of his produce. Mathews, a 63-year-old farmer from Lichtenburg in the North West Province of South Africa, said this year's El Nino-induced drought was "very bad," which caused his m......

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