Marko, (insidesomalia.org) - Reports from Janale locale of lower Shabelle region say that the farming season of the district has been delayed by streaming inundations that spoiled massive farmlands in the region.

Hundreds of cultivators also fled from the ward after full-size flooding water fiercely broke into their farmlands.

“My arable farm deducted by flowing rainy water, I cannot have crops this year farming season” Jangow Hassan farmer in the district told Shabelle English service.

The region has livestock, rain-fed and gravity irrigated agriculture as well as fisheries. The annual rainfall 150 – 500mm

In late 2004, the coastal districts of the region received yet the worst blow ever, Tsunami which destroyed all the fishing gears, fishing boats, equipments about 300 fishing villages wiped out and entirely destroyed, includes the infrastructure human lives and properties.

There exists a massive seasonal flooding from the Shabelle River, the heavy rains in the Ethiopian high lands which resulted the destruction of the cash crops, village settlements, seasonal crop storage facilities and all infrastructures such as bridges, radial gates, canal outlets, dike and the water way systems.

Out of the 1.5 million people in need of assistance in Somalia, about 300,000 are in Middle and Lower Shabelle regions. The 1.5 million also includes around 490,000 other vulnerable people in need of aid, an estimated 325,000 persons internally displaced since April 2007 and some 400,000 persons who have been internally displaced for a protracted period.

Somalia has had no effective central government since the ouster of former dictator, Mohammed Siad Barre in 1991.