Hello Hive

The unfortunate event eventually happened, and a portion of our farms were submerged by flood water. For some years now, we do encounter a challenge with flooding, even though we most of the time get lucky that the water does not enter the farms, or when it does, it often drys up before any crops get damaged.

Depending on the amount of rainfall yearly, we may/may not have this experience. There was nothing of this sort last year.

The thing is that we have some of our farms close to a river source, most especially the rice fields where we grow rice. Rice is a crop that has to be grown in swamps, and most of the swampy area we have here is close to this particular river.

During periods of heavy rainfall, this river gets overfilled, overflowing its banks and flooding our farms.

Earlier this year we experienced a drought that lasted for almost two months, damaging some crops along the line, and now the story has changed completely.

The rainfall is at its peak now, such that we have been having constant everyday rains that have caused this river to be filled and flooding farms.

Our rice farms have been submerged in some locations, including the guinea corn farms of neighboring farmers.

There is practically no way we can go closer to these farms. When flood waters cover up our farms like this, we often hope that the waters will dry up on time because when these waters submerge crops for more than 2 weeks, anything planted in such fields will rot away.

The pattern of rainfall this year is really unfortunate; having damaged the crop we planted earlier, now we are experiencing a different ballgame. This was what met our eyes yesterday, having gone to the farm with some fertilizer to apply to our rice field.

We couldn't even make it close to the rice field as the water was much, and everyone is hoping that this will give way soon so that we won't have our growing rice going rotten. The situation got us really sad yesterday. We couldn't do any other task in the farm here and headed home much eaelier than the usual time.