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When Will Drought Support Arrive?
posted (January 15, 2020)
So, as you heard in our story, the meteorologists are forecasting that 2020 could be another dry year. Since last year's drought crisis, the Government and the Ministry of Agriculture have started lobbying the international financial institutions to fund a water management plan for the agro productive sectors.

They are trying to help the nation's farmers become more resilient to climate change, and today the Agriculture Minister revealed that the Government has already approached the World Bank for a 25 million-dollar solution. Here's how he explained it at today's opening of the cane crop season:

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