Small scale farmers benefit from traditional wether forecasting

Thw Bunyore community in Western Kenya are porpularly known as home of rainmakers have to be very essentian in weather forecasting using individual techniques.
Their predictions are based on a combination of natural phenomenon to predict optimal planting. By noting imigration and behaviour of certain birds, insects, reptile and flowering of certain trees & plants, the Nganyi clan predict rain or drought. Also they gauge strong & direction of wind to enable them forcast whether rain from lake victoria is likely or not.
The fact about the Nganyi's reputed accurecy of forecasts has prompted clearfacts at the KMO to work with them in a project in collaboration with ICPAC to confirm the coverage between traditional knowledge of forecasting & scientific one.
The indigenous forecasting knowledge have since proven confined to a small geographical area and thus specific to the needs of substance funmors. This process has proven very useful to small scale farmers within Bunyore community and thus an essetain disaster management tool.

Location: Nganyi Clan, Bunyore, Kenya