Corentyne rice farmers are calling on the relevant authorities to take action against the cattle farmers, who they say are costing them huge losses by allowing their animals to venture into rice fields and eat their produce.
According to rice farmers, between Number 52 Village and Number 65 Village, Corentyne, there are specific cattle farmers who have exhibited a “don’t care attitude” about the destruction caused by their animals.
Amarnauth Pitamber, 31, of Lot 410 Number 55 Village, Corentyne, who plants over 35 acres of rice, explained that a few farmers leave their cattle to wander in the area. “…In the night, the animals a go in the rice field and in the day time when people go in them a come out and go reef. The owner nah come and catch them and put them in pen or anything, only when is time to bran or time to sell, then them a come for them,” he said.
