A farmer opens a furrow in his field with an ox-drawn plough on a farm in Zimbabwe. The country has been slow to embrace satellite-based systems for its agricultural sector, but now the country is seeing the benefits of using the technology to help farmers adapt to the impact of climate change, agricultural experts say. — AFP
NTABAZINDUNA, Zimbabwe: Deep in rural western Zimbabwe, where tarred roads are nonexistent, Japhet Ngwenya used to spend every season worrying that the people who advise him on how to protect his crops from dry spells and pest invasions would not be able to reach him.
Ngwenya's farm – in Ntabazinduna, 40 kilometres (24 miles) north of Bulawayo – is so remote that he can go a year or more without seeing the agriculture extension officers who are sent by local charities to assist small-scale farmers like him.
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