financial losses
THE extreme weather – including heatwaves and flooding – has resulted in farmers incurring huge financial losses in recent months.
Traders at the Bangladesh Market in Chatsworth said their crops and livestock had died as a result of the adverse weather that had continued unabated in KwaZulu-Natal.
Shane Maharaj, who has been in the fresh produce and marigold business for many years, said his losses had been running into thousands of rand each month,
