Wash Clothes, Hyde Park rice farmers short of water

Scorched earth: This is the condition of some rice fields in Wash Clothes and Hyde Park Mahaicony. Grains of fertiliser can be seen on the surface and this is poisonous to the young rice shoots without water.

Rice farmers at Wash Clothes and Hyde Park, Mahaicony say that if the MMA Scheme does not regulate their water supply in a more efficient manner, they may lose their crop, comprising thousands of acres collectively.

However, the Mahaica, Mahaicony, Abary-Agricultural Development Association (MMA- ADA) Scheme under whose jurisdiction the areas fall for drainage, said that relief work was to have commenced yesterday.

Speaking to Stabroek News, Ramgobin, a rice farmer,