Community Concerns in Australian Agriculture

The bush has always held a crucial place in the Australian community, location and agriculture. In fact, the horticultural domain has employed approximately 270,000 people in the global context. This equates to 2.3 per cent of the Australian working class. However, labour shortage continues to be a problem in the agricultural sector.

Australia faced a devastating start to its fire season in late 2019, and things swiftly got worse in the community before rains helped contain many of the worst fires in February 2020. The Verge will update this page with news and analyses. Dozens of fires erupted in New South Wales, Australia, prompting the government to declare a state of emergency in November 2019. Fires rapidly spread across all communities to become some of the most devastating on record. An area about the size of South Korea, roughly 25.5 million acres, has burned. At least 33 people are dead, including at least three volunteer firefighters, and more are missing. Around 3,000 homes have been destroyed or damaged. As blazes intensified in the days leading up to New Year’s Eve, thousands of people who were forced to evacuate sought shelter on beaches across New South Wales and Victoria.

Summer extends from December to February in Australia, with fire season typically peaking in late January or early February in the Australian community. On January 3rd, officials warned that conditions would get worse over the following few days. “It’s going to be a blast furnace,” New South Wales Transport Minister Andrew Constance said to The Sydney Morning Herald. By January 10th, another round of massive evacuations in the community began across the hardest-hit regions of the southeast due to dangerous winds fanning the flames.

The fires in New South Wales, the state most affected, were finally declared “contained” on February 13th. We can really focus on helping people rebuild,” New South Wales Rural Fire Service deputy commissioner Rob Rogers said in a video shared on Twitter. The relief came after torrential rains marked the wettest week in the region in three decades.

Article by: Hari Yellina (Orchard Tech)