Farmers pray for rain as El Nino dries up water supply

A farmer pumping water from the visibly low canal onto his land.

Story and photos by Dhanash Ramroop

As rice farmers struggle to cope with an extremely dry season, the Mahaica Mahaicony Abary Agricultural Development Authority (MMA-ADA) and the National Drainage and Irrigation Authority (NDIA) have been forced to monitor the farmers’ use of the limited water.

Stabroek News was made to understand that over the past week, several farmers in the