Vetiver grass: What your wet farm needs

Vetiver grass.

This season, the rains are exceptionally heavy and with it has come loss of human and animal life. Unfortunately, like the weatherman has indicated, the problem is not likely to be over anytime soon; at least not for farmers whose land is covered with river sand; rocks, pebbles or uprooted tree stumps.

While city dwellers quickly settle back to normal when rains subside, affected farmers will need to put in place effective land reclamation strategies to get their arable land back. It could be filling gullies; clearing the rubble, covering bare-back eroded soils or draining the layer of water that has made a home in their farms.