Mahangu subsistence farmers of the north are busy cultivating their crop fields in anticipation of good rains.
The mahangu cultivation season started in mid-December and will end in mid-February. But it will only be in April and mid-May will the crops be ready for harvesting.
With the recent good rains across the north people have been using tractors to plough their fields, but in Omusati region the tractors are hard to find, and they cost N$650 per hectare, so that some communal mahangu farmers have to rely on ploughing with donkeys, or using hand-hoes to dig trenches where to sow their seeds.
In the photo is Mrs Imakulata Flasilo of Okapilangi village in Ruacana constituency ploughing with donkeys. She has to do it herself as the children who have been doing the ploughing are now gone to school.
