This El Nino won't give DR Congo a simple wet year or a dry one …

This El Nino won't give DR Congo a simple wet year or a dry one — expect rain that starts late, stops early, and comes in bursts, so plant on what you see the soil doing, not the calendar. For cassava, protect your future harvest at the cutting stage: take stems only from healthy, mid-stem wood, and throw out anything with brown streaks, even from a resistant variety like Nabana. If brown streak is already in your field, harvest by 9 months rather than 12 — waiting nearly doubles the rot. For your maize, shell within two days of harvest, dry to 14%, and seal it airtight; that is the difference between losing a handful of grain and losing nearly half a bag to weevils.

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