Farmers turn to fishing as Zimbabwe crops fail

In Shurugwi, the heart of Zimbabwe’s maize-growing midlands, farmers are resorting to illegal fishing in order to cope with the agricultural crisis in Zimbabwe to supplement his meagre food stocks, reports IRIN.

According to the article, the World Food Programme reported in the previous week that 1.5 million people, 16 percent of Zimbabwe’s population, are expected to be “food insecure” at the peak of the lean season, which runs from around November to March – a rise of 164 percent compared to the same period last year. In areas where crops failed due to the drought, households that planted their crops early last year managed to get some grain, but this is running out fast, while the majority got nothing.