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Roll out drought mitigation measures

The ravages of drought and hunger across many parts of the country can only get worse. Yet this is a situation that proper advance planning could have mitigated.

Planners in the ministries of Devolution, Agriculture, Water and Irrigation failed to take into account early warnings by the meteorological department that drought was imminent.

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