Southern African farmers face heavy flood losses

AlertNet: A woman enters her home flooded with water, close to the swollen Limpopo River in Mozambique, Temba Mduli's fields resemble a vast lake, studded with treetops and half-submerged buildings. Once-green corn, soya beans, potatoes and sunflowers have been turned yellow by some of the worst flooding to cut through northern South Africa in years. "I will be lucky just to get fodder out of the bad parts,' he says, as his two John Deere tractors sit nearby, submerged to their steering wheels. "That's......

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