As official data dries up, Zimbabwe's farmers gauge rainfall themselves

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Zimbabwe

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AlertNet

Posted

12 Mar 2015

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11 Mar 2015

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Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation - Wed, 11 Mar 2015 10:08 GMT

Author: Jeffrey Gogo

UZUMBA, Zimbabwe, March 11 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - T wo months after the first rains fell in Zunzanyika village last autumn, tensions were high. The rains - which mark the start of the planting season - had disappeared as quickly as they had come, and crops planted in October failed to germinate.

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