Hello Hive.

To whom can we place the responsibility for the control of natural disasters like this, the government or the farmers?
Within this locality all the farmers are subsistent farmers and everyone is farming to feed his or her family.
When simple measures can be taking to divert water flow or control erosions like this but adequate attention is not giving to such, you are prune to have farmland flushed away like this.

My family have been farming around this area for years now and this big hole you can see above was a part of the farmland. It started as a little water flow paths where we barely stretch our legs to cross and widely expanded to become what we have here.
The heavy downpour has created a river right in the middle of the farm here.

Subsistent farmers may not have enough to control natural disasters like this and I can say that the government is never aware of happenings in different part of the states.
While we are in the era of no jobs and inflation it will be a good opportunity for the government to invest in Agriculture employing rural and subsistent farmers like us.

It is possible that alot of farmers around here will stick to a crude farming system even as food gets scarce by the day.
I believe that the rate of farming activities in the country is dying down everyday and now that people moved out of the farms to offices, the offices are no longer paying because of hard economic situations.
It will indeed be a terrible state if people no longer till the ground to provide more food for sale in our markets and they jobs in the offices cannot provide enough to buy the food we need either.

This is just another water path building up here. Personally the little I have learnt about controlling erosion by planting of trees and cover crops might not be sufficient control large water flow that's larger than this.

There is a possibility of building water ways and channeling them to nearby river but even the closest river to this place has not received proper care and has often flow out into our farms.
Just take a look at how water has flowed from this river miles away to come fill up our rice farms.

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That is some of the challenges farmers around here experience.
I can't say if the government are investing in Agriculture in other communities but from the quantity of harvest been brought to the markets and the rising prices of foodstuff it directly implies that farming activities are reducing drastically by the day.
Farming can be one way to save the nations economy, joblessness and the daily rising hunger and poverty rate.