Improving disaster recovery and resilience

By Stuart Armitage, Qff President
Updated February 13 2019 - 2:22pm, first published 12:00pm
Improving disaster recovery and resilience
Improving disaster recovery and resilience

As the floodwaters recede, Queensland farmers are beginning the difficult recovery process. The intense monsoonal trough that bought unprecedented weather to the state’s north delivered one to two meters of rain in just days. The large system further impacted coastal farms already saturated by previous monsoonal activity and cruelly delivered an emotional roller coaster of drought dismay to short lived euphoria to flooding devastation to graziers in the west. Recovering from this natural disaster will take considerable time and effort. Natural disasters are part and parcel of farming in Queensland, but having years of hard work wiped out minutes or hours is stressful and emotional for farmers. For many businesses, total recovery is not possible, leaving them more vulnerable to the next event.

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