{"id":25691,"date":"2022-07-23T15:06:19","date_gmt":"2022-07-23T15:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/most-northerners-will-need-drought-relief"},"modified":"2022-07-23T15:16:46","modified_gmt":"2022-07-23T15:16:46","slug":"most-northerners-will-need-drought-relief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/most-northerners-will-need-drought-relief","title":{"rendered":"Most northerners will need drought relief"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Namibia. <\/strong><\/span>THIS year\u2019s harvest was satisfactory for some but not for other subsistence farmers which find themselves in the four northern regions of Omusati, Oshana, Ohangwena and Oshikoto.<\/p>\n

Many will need drought assistance, says Adolf Uunona, the councilor for Oshana Region\u2019s Ompundja Constituency.<\/p>\n

He blamed climate change for this year\u2019s insufficient rainfall.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe rainy season started too late and ended too soon. That had a negative effect on the harvest. People will definitely need drought relief and government is already preparing for that eventuality,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He has a special message to those northerners who are employed in towns and other parts of the country: \u201cStart putting some money aside to support your relatives back home. They will need it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Angula Kanelombe, the spokesperson of the Ombalantu Traditional Authority in the Omusati Region, echoed Uunona\u2019s view.<\/p>\n

He said the recent mahangu harvest season was neither too good nor too poor.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe rainy season started very late. There was a time when we had no hope for a harvest at all, but we did have a harvest that was not to everybody\u2019s satisfaction,\u201d he said, adding that the rainfalls were unpredictable and sporadic so much so that, sometimes, it rained in one mahangu field and not in the neighbouring one. \u201cThe result is that two neighbouring families had vastly unequal harvests,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The same situation was reported in the Oshikoto and Ohangwena regions.<\/p>\n

However, grazing is said to be good in all four regions.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur livestock died en masse during the drought of 2019. Our herds are still recovering and available grazing is more than enough,\u201d said Kanelombe.<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Namibia. THIS year\u2019s harvest was satisfactory for some but not for other subsistence farmers which find themselves in the four northern regions of Omusati, Oshana, Ohangwena and Oshikoto. Many will need drought assistance, says Adolf Uunona, the councilor for Oshana Region\u2019s Ompundja Constituency. 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