What to do when rains become unpredictable

Mr Mark Kemboi was upbeat when he planted maize on his five acre-farm in Trans-Nzoia County in February. He had enjoyed a bumper harvest a year before, thanks to the heavy long rains the county experienced in 2018. The 2018 March to May long rains were reportedly the heaviest in the past 55 years. And so this year, Kemboi expected things to be the same.

It was, however, after a whole month of waiting that the rains finally came. Kemboi had since lost hope that the seed would ever germinate from the perched ground.