Drought

As many of you have heard, we have not been having good rainfall this rainy season. Southern Province has been particularly bad, there has been better rainfall in other parts of Zambia.
Here are a couple of pictures to show the result.  These were taken at the beginning of March and there has been no significant rainfall since then.  With the end of the season approaching, and harvest coming soon, you can see that the situation is not good, particularly for those families who just have a small plot of land where they grow the maize that usually keeps them for at least part of the year.

This is a patch of very sad looking ground nuts, with some wilting pumpkins amongst them.

A field of maize. This should be tall and dark green, with some good cobs forming by now.