Region Two Chairman Parmanand Persaud said government is working with rice farmers to harvest the first crop for the year which it anticipates to be its biggest ever.
However, as recent heavy rains have made dams and farmlands inaccessible, the regional administration has deployed all its machinery to improve them so that the harvesting period will not be stymied, Persaud said, as the region expects to meet its target of over one million bags of paddy.
“We are expected to start harvesting
