SANA'A - SABA : Yemen has never seen such volatility in climate. Late last month, torrential rains turned into overwhelming floods that swept through villages, cities, population centers and farms, leaving extensive damage.
The Republic of Yemen is a country whose ancient civilization was built on agriculture and rainwater, making the Yemeni people exploit the water of that rains in the best possible way.
Thus, they built dams and water barriers, model farms and mountain terraces, which led to an unprecedented agricultural renaissance on which was built an ancient Yemeni civilization immortalized by history throughout its various eras, and its imprints are still evident today.
Yemenis have excelled in exploiting and storing rainwater in dams and water barriers that were built for this purpose.
They have used this water wisely to create an agricultural renaissance that has made the country stand at the forefront of countries with an influential civilization throughout history.
Yemen's diverse terrain, such as plains and mountainous areas, has allowed for a wide range of agricultural work to be carried out, relying on rainwater collection techniques and ideal methods for exploiting and draining that water.
However, the heavy rains recently seen by the country, which led to unusual floods along with the resultant great losses in lives and property of citizens, have transformed rainwater from a bless into a curse and have necessitated a long reconsideration to develop solutions needed to avoid any damage that may occur in the future, including avoiding the establishment of population centers and farms in flood channels, constructing water barriers in a way that makes them structures capable to resist and withstand the flowing floods, and taking precautions and caution against all of the above-mentioned damages to avoid their occurrence in the future and to preserve farms, agricultural crops, irrigation systems and the lives of citizens.
Reports are issued from time to time by many climate change monitoring centers, indicating that Yemen has begun to enter the rainy climate of Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa. If that is true, the country will witness a radical change in the agricultural issue, which necessitates a set of precautionary measures to tackle that change and prepare the country to take maximum advantage and make best use of climate change in order to bring about a studied and modern agricultural renaissance.
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