Gambian farmers are optimistic that this year's season will produce a bumper harvest in various food crops. The heavydown of rain witnessed during the past two months in the country has rendered some people homeless mostly those who are residing in flood-prone areas.
The government through the National Disaster Committee has provided some assistance to a number of families severely hit by the torrential rains during the month of August.
Not everyone is complaining, rice farmers in rural Gambia beleive if the recent rains are anything to go by, their fields are expected to produce a bumper harvest. Initially, Buba Samura, a rice farmer in the Upper River of the country thought they were going to witness a drought.
'In the beginning, I thought the rains were not going to come, but now Mother Nature has shown us that no one can predict the vagaries of the weather'
The only thing is that farmers are now praying so that the heavens will not open again. Enough, is enough, they told me.
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