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Yes, you can also avert crop losses this season

Tomatoes are affected by wet weather because it promotes the development of blight. Monitoring the garden closely will let you find these problems it become serious or fatal.

Of late, several regions in Kenya have received exceptional amounts of rainfall. The excessive rains will cause a variety of problems for farmers with the main headache being crops getting submerged in water.

The leaves submerged in water die off due to lack of oxygen. The floods also make the plants weaker because the plants cannot absorb nutrients.

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