The planting season begins soon and farmers are unlikely to be able to return home in time.
Spring is arriving slowly this year in North Korea, pushing back the crucial planting season by a month.
Since Arkansas has an early planting season, scientists say the rust could find a firm footing in the state.
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The aim is to have seeds ready for the planting season next May.
Existing funding is already going to The NHS Forest to plant 65, 000 trees across 25 sites in this planting season.
Mr Mugabe says that the new farmers will be in situ in time for the new planting season in October.
Already, high water has closed hundreds of roads and swamped hundreds of thousands of acres of farmland as planting season approaches.
For example, it's difficult to rally your troops for war in the planting season, because they will most likely not leave the fields.
Ribiero notes that it is now planting season in western Kenya, and in some places it appears people are not working the fields.
At another village in Lesotho a logistical glitch prevented corn seeds donated by an aid organization from arriving in time for the planting season.
Since then, his supporters have carried out 30 new farm invasions, and violence has stopped work on some 700 farms during the planting season.
Rains are due next month, and with them the planting season.
They made loans against future production ahead of the planting season.
Thanks to early rains during the main planting season, the biggest rice crop (Indonesia has three a year) is now coming to market about a month early.
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The Afghan government's backers are presumably now hoping that the farmers do not take too much inspiration from Senlis as the new poppy planting season gets under way this month.
Others, particularly in the South, start in mid-August and end in mid-May, a relic of the agrarian calendar that ensured students were out of school in time for the spring planting season.
As for corn, farmers who were able to get into the fields during a soggy planting season in late March and April are seeing their crops in some cases under several feet of water.
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As for what impact all this could have on Somalia's famine - I will write about that in more detail in another blog, but the UN has already expressed concern and, with planting season at hand, it is hard to imagine how an upsurge in fighting could be anything but bad news for Somalia's vulnerable population.
Anthony Snell, who grows strawberries, raspberries and blackberries on his farm in south Herefordshire, said he was currently about two weeks behind on planting this season.
It comes just as farmers should be planting their crops for the main growing season, and it is happening in the most fertile part of the country.
An experiment in rural Bangladesh provided men with the bus fare to Dhaka at the beginning of the lean season, the period between planting and the next harvest when there is little to do except sit around.
Anyone moving to a new house and garden should allow a growing season to pass, seeing what comes up before planting anything new.
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Farmers can adjust to earlier planting times, perhaps avoiding some extreme temperatures during the sensitive flowering period, and lengthening the growing season.
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