Even though the floodwater has started to recede in Mahaicony Creek areas, farmers’ losses are increasing as their livestock continue to die and their rice farms remain inaccessible.
“Well we’ve been under water since the last week in April and it was higher than this and it went down last week and just like that it came back up higher and went down back a bit,” Shrikant (only name given), a farmer from Gordon Table said.
She stated that while the water is slowly going down, her cash crops remain waterlogged and her livestock continue to die. “I had beans, tomatoes and sweet pepper and all dead. And even when the
