More irrigation pumps have been dispatched to flood-affected farmlands along the Mahaicony coast in a bid to drain farms of salt water which rushed in from spring tides over the last week and some land may not be usable for two years.
Land cultivated and being used to rear livestock was flooded after heavy overtopping and several breaches along the sea defence on the Mahaicony coast.
The spring tides last week surged through one section of the fragile defences where natural protection mangroves had been washed away and salt water has ruined large swathes of rice acreage.
