Makueni is a semi-arid region where farmers for years have relied on irregular rain patterns for farming with rain becoming more often undependable and insufficient to sustain crop production.
Due to such, farmers experience crop failures in most of her sub-counties with relief food being the only option.
According to weather forecasts, the October-November-December (OND) rain season in the region was expected be below average levels with the Makueni Director of Meteorological Services Jonathan Ngayai advising farmers to plant low-rain crops and embrace water harvesting.
Sure, to the forecast, the county has since experienced depressed rains and crops failed.
