Rural Community Farming Needs Water

Taking a glimpse at a drought situation of the remote areas during the dry season, they could realize the farmer’s hardship. A nation of Southeast Asia for example [Cambodia] within most of the people is farmers depending on agriculture but the rural areas looked dry so it is very difficult for the farmer to survive.

Lacking of water is the pressing concern for rural community development at remote areas. As of other nations which are plenty of water, the landscape is green therefore they can cultivate both in the rainy season and dry season but in a country lacks water so the farmers left their rice field empty during the dry season until the rainy season comes. Sometimes, it is not a regular time for the coming of the rainy season. Over that time, farmers were hit by floods or drought consequently. Climate change is also the matter to put pressure on agricultural cultivation on which the country depends on rainfalls.

Community people do not have adequate water not only for farming but also for daily use. On the other hand, a poor country which lack of infrastructure, for example, bridge, road, school, hospital. So many people move to a town to seek for a job or continue their studying due to employment in small and medium enterprises and higher education place are located in the town. Some students decided to drop school because they need to help their parents in farming or making income.

Farming of rural community people is based on water source so if without water they do not have work to do. That is why the community people always migrate to find another work for generating income to support living condition which this migration is the most hazardous concern.

Even though, the government prioritizes water matter in its national policy. Yet there is no guarantee the availability of water for both in the dry season and rainy season across the nation. In this case, the government must pay more attention to this policy related to water resource availability to the farmers in the rural community areas.

Of course it is focused on both agricultural investment project and effective water resource management. However, in some areas, there has been plenty of outnumbered water staged flood but sooner and later these areas become dry staged rice become fruitless due to drought. This reveals the bad management of local authority in charge of the agriculture sector to control rural community water resources.

It is very critical to invest agricultural sector for the national staple production in which populations are predominantly farmers working based on agriculture. So the government with the partnership of non-governmental organizations has to strive to make remote areas becoming the green rice field so that to help community people generating their income and improve the quality of living.

In addition, they can reduce poverty of local people and prevent the any risky migration. The government basically pays attention to ensuring that farmers have adequate water and plot of land size for cultivation [social concession land policy.] And that is the accountability of the government.