The worst drought to hit Australia is taking a heavy toll on its farmers not only on their livestocks, but in their bedrooms as well.

Reports say the record drought which has hit eastern Australia is forcing women to leave the countryside and head to the cities, with fewer and fewer women for the farmers to date or marry.

Jack Laurie, president of the New South Wales Farmers Association told The Sydney Morning Herald "There really isn't many females in some country towns," he told the association's annual conference in Sydney, warning that farmers would not stay in areas where there was a shortage of women."

"Bush kids are red-blooded males like everybody else."

He said the so-called "Big Dry" is afflicting 94 percent of the state and is the third worst drought in the nation's history. It has already cost the rural economy an estimated $3 billion in agricultural damage.

The situation is worsened as the heat wave seems unbearable to women and forced them to migrate towards the cities.

Eastern Australia has been experiencing drought for the past five years. Weathermen said it is the longest dry spell in 60 years.