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Uganda: Can farmers curb dry spells?
Posted by New Vision: Thomas Ssemakula on January 17th, 2011
New Vision: TOWARDS the end of last year, weather experts predicated that Uganda would face a long and dry spell. This prediction has already come to pass with the current hot temperatures sweeping throughmost parts of the country.
The drought phenomenon is part of a wave of natural disasters that have hit the world in the past decades as a result of human induced global climate change.
The trend these natural disasters have taken will be aggravated by the projections of extreme weather patterns related...