Mobile pump, excavator deployed to flood-hit Mahaica

Works continuing for the Hope Canal (GINA photo)

Government has deployed a mobile pump and excavator to Mahaica to aid in the draining of farmlands and to carry out dam maintenance in response to the La Nina rains as efforts are made to save a 3,000 acre rice crop.

According to a press release from the Government Information Agency (GINA), Minister within the Ministry of Agriculture Ally Baksh yesterday gave rice farmers of No. 10 Mahaica River and,