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Why you need to insure your crops and livestock

A potato farmer sorts his harvest.

What is more devastating for a farmer than a drought that strikes at a time crops are just beginning to bloom? Pretty nothing else.

For Dorcas Nyawira, a 32-year-old mother of one, watching her two-acre plantation of maize dry away was gut-wrenching. The rains failed in Nyeri during the last maize-planting season, spelling doom for many farmers who hoped for a bountiful harvest.

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