date:Jul 28, 2012
s, including empty granaries and farmers selling off their livestock to make ends meet.
Bad harvest
This years cereals harvest was 1,076,772 metric tonnes one-third lower than that of last year and the lowest since 2009. The impact will be felt hardest at the peak of the hunger season, from January to March next year. WFPs seasonal assistance programme normally starts in October, but rural people already feeling the effects of the drought.
Various factors are being blamed for the deterioratin