Flood threatens Mahaica rice crop

By Gaulbert Sutherland On In Guyana News |
A pump from the MMA pumping water from the left bank of the Mahaica Creek into the waterway yesterday. “The pump really keeping the water level down,” said mechanic Cordell Batson. They have been pumping since two Saturdays ago, he said.
A pump from the MMA pumping water from the left bank of the Mahaica Creek into the waterway yesterday. “The pump really keeping the water level down,” said mechanic Cordell Batson. They have been pumping since two Saturdays ago, he said.

In rice fields along the Mahaica River, the pumps are working overtime. But Jaipaul Jaikarran says that he has already lost 50 acres of rice and a horse and a foal have died.

Every day he spends $30 000 for diesel to keep his pumps running and has been spending this amount for 15 days now to keep water out of his Handsome Tree fields, the elderly farmer