The Director General of IGEBU Augustin Ngenzirabona updated the weather forecasts for the B (Impeshi) cultivation season on Wednesday, March 16, 2022. According to Augustin Ngenzirabona, Burundi will return to the normal rhythm of precipitation, adding that the rains will start now and will cover the entire national territory of Burundi.

The Director General of IGEBU also specified that these rains will have a normal rhythm, but that there will be periods that will be characterized by above-normal meteorological rainfall in some regions.

Finally, the Director General of IGEBU noted that the end of the March-May 2022 season is scheduled to end between the 1st and 2nd decade of May in most natural regions of Burundi except in the natural regions of Mugamba and Bututsi where the end of the B (impeshi) cultivation season is scheduled to end at the end of May 2022.