Hello Hive

Our crops are poorly affected by the lack of rain and I'm not so sure if these will recover. Every farming season comes with its challenges. Sometimes the farmer is unable to put in the hard labour and other times the forces of nature just chooses to work against us.

Take a look the devastating condition of our groundnut farm. By this time Majority of the crop is withering away. The leaves are fast drying up and this is a crop that is in its prime production phase. This is meant to be developing groundnut in their roots already but they are drying up instead.

The long period of dryness has affected the crops so badly that I'm not so sure of these will recover. While the rains started a bit earlier this year and was very much consistent we never expected an August break that will last this long.

Meanwhile the corn and groundnut most especially are in their peak of growth. Rather than flourishing and producing grains for us, they are drying up.

A major concern now is how much we have spend on this crop that everything is coming down to nothing. While purchasing these groundnut seeds for planting it was really expensive such that a 1.6kg measurements of the seeds cost about $2. Even though we have preserved some seed for planting from last year's harvest, they were not enough to cover up for the fairly large portion of groundnut seeds we have planted

All the labour on this farm will go to waste if this crop is unable to recover. We have succeeded in planting two categories of groundnuts. These ones were planted in the month of July thereabout and this is the reason that their seed production phase fell at this period of August rain break. The other ones we have planted in the first week of August are still in their tender ages and still have time to readjust when the rains returns.

My only concern is this very farm in which we have spent so much on this to now loss everything to lack of rain.