Planting Maize

Family planting of maize, today in Lusangazi. As soon as they see rain, they plant the maize immediately.
However, having spoken to the older men, they feel that this rain has come from the wrong direction and as yet is only the small rains, and the real rains may be a week or two.
Either way, Eleana and Victor, sporting s newly designed hat made from banana leaves, were taking no chances.
Like most land around, the soil is depleted from years of maize growing, and will need very expensive fertilizer.
Hybrid maize and chemical fertilizer, a plan from the developed world and to wholly inappropriate to the poorest.