By Roseline Okakah

Farmers have been advised on fire tracing of their farms to avoid fire outbreak in their farms as the dry season gets to its peak.

The Ondo state Project Manager, Agro Climatology Department of the Ministry of Agriculture  and Forestry, Mr. Rufus Adeshina Akeju gave the advice in an interview with The Hope in Akure , yesterday.

His words; “Fire tracing is a physical thing and it’s simple. You try to keep bushes off your boundary so that it won’t be easy for fire to attack the farm.

“Keep the bush away by 1 to 2 meters from the farm.,”

He stated that the weather is now in the dry season with pockets of harmattan which seems to be fizzling away.

“What we have now is dry season. The major characteristic of this period is heat. The heat is very drastic to humans now.”

He encouraged crop farmers on mulching to reserve the little moisture in the soil for the plants as he confirmed such weather as a period to consider irrigation for vegetables.

“For animals, particularly livestock, it is advisable to give them enough water during this time and if possible, you can wet them so as to cool down the temperature of their body”, he advised.

 Explaining further, Akeju said the period will experience pockets of rains but not enough to call it rainy season for planting.