Fresh Floods Hit Butaleja



Fresh floods have destroyed several crop gardens in Butaleja district causing farmers huge loses. The floods were triggered by heavy rains that pounded the district on Monday evening.

They mainly affected rice gardens in Busaba and Nawanjofu sub counties where a number of gardens were washed away.

Stephen Were, the Busaba Sub County Agriculture Officer says over 100 acres of rice and other gardens were destroyed by the floods, adding that the farmers who planted maize, water melon and cassava have also been affected.

He says most of the affected farmers had just received farm inputs and seedlings under the government funded Agriculture Cluster Development Program where they paid Shillings 148,500 each. Were warns of more disaster since the rains are just beginning.

Mwima Analoga, a resident of Hahola village, says on top of her house flooding, the floods also destroyed her rice and maize gardens. Butaleja district is prone to flooding from river Manafwa, which snakes through.





































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