There are clearly no hopes for those who grow rice seeds on swamps and on farm lands in Sierra Leone.

They still like their forefathers and grandparents using their bare hands to hold hoes to plough vast savanahs in April for rice plantation.

These people in Kambia district, Mambolo chiefdom, are organizing themselves into Islamic groups (jamaat) to work in some vast swamps.

Since decades ago when farmers in Sierra Leone in upcountry had been using hoes locally built by some blacksmiths to work, the laborious practice still continues to be done by a smaller number of the youth left in the villages to work. Many have gone to the cities with others doing bike riding.

The country has not got a committed leader or government to take farming from subsistence to a  mechanized one.

None support is given to farmers like these ones who are ploughing vast savanah-swamps in north of Sierra Leone.

Neither NGOs nor the central government has ever taken farming and agriculture so seriously which would have totally eradicated hunger and suffering on the people of Sierra Leone.

In a vox pop interview done by Africa 24, the boys never blamed anyone for not helping them with agro-based and advanced farming machines like bulldozers to plough the savanas. They enjoyed it even when it feels hard to work with the wooden hoes.

“We have resumed our jamaat communal work in town. You see that man is workaholic,” a man described his fellow which was followed with a laugh by the one filmed at. Despite that they couldn’t complain to government for any help, it is good that they are given all necessary assistance with farm tools or modern farming machines.

With this help they will be able to grow a hundred man’s swamp rice area within a day’s bulldozer’s work which could otherwise by done for months by hundred men. It tells you that Sierra Leone can more rice for the people to eat when there are machines that can work larger lands and swamps than it could be done by men with bare hoes.