{"id":5823,"date":"2019-10-09T09:39:13","date_gmt":"2019-10-09T06:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=5823"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:35","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:35","slug":"on-reaping-big-from-drought-shortages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/10\/09\/on-reaping-big-from-drought-shortages\/","title":{"rendered":"On Reaping Big From Drought, Shortages"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>By Daily Nation<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Mwala,\nMachakos County, only farms close to water points are green. Crops in the rest,\nwhose owners lack the means for irrigation, are wilted, having lost the fight\nto a harsh weather.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Across the\nroad and far into the scattered woods, a few sheep, goats and cows tethered to\ntrees scrape a nearly bare ground for the last straws of dried grass.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In\nMalumani, however, Arubanas Mutua\u2019s three cows effortlessly supply the village\nwith many litres of milk despite the dry weather that has destroyed pasture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just before the December 2018 short rains, Mutua planted Napier grass on a quarter-acre piece of land, then bought several bales of stovers and grass from locals that he used to make hay. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nation.co.ke\/business\/seedsofgold\/On-reaping-big-from-drought--shortages\/2301238-5298954-11t1jmg\/index.html\">Read more>><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Daily Nation In Mwala, Machakos County, only farms close to water points are green. Crops in the rest, whose owners lack the means for irrigation, are wilted, having lost&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5824,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}