West Berbice farmers counting losses after rains

An Armadale, West Berbice cash crop farmer is crying out over the losses he suffered after his farm was inundated, following heavy rainfall on Monday and yesterday.
Narinedat Sain, 45, told Stabroek News that he invested over $400,000 in his crop, which included two acres of boulanger, one and a half acre of ochroes and a half acre of tomatoes.

He said most of the tomatoes were already damaged while the boulanger plants were almost covered with water. When this newspaper visited his farm yesterday, he and two of his workers were reaping some of the ochroes.

He pointed out that he could not pump out the water