Water relief for Mahaicony rice farmers this weekend –Ramsammy

A parched field at Wash Clothes on Monday.

Even though the Mahaica-Mahaicony-Abary (MMA) scheme has started operating an irrigation pump at Mora Point, some Mahaicony rice farmers are still without water but Minister of Agriculture, Dr Leslie Ramsammy says there will be some relief by this weekend.

Speaking to this newspaper, one farmer from Wash Clothes said yesterday that the situation is not yet resolved. “They (MMA) started the Mora Point pump. But while the water coming they stop the