A Number Seven Village, West Berbice farmer turned up at his tomato farm recently only to find all of his crops destroyed.
He has estimated some $750,000 in losses. Mark Ramdass related that he left his farm in the usual good condition last Thursday and returned the next day, “and I see my farm ‘sprayed down’”. All of his crops were killed out after a person or persons sprayed Gramoxone on them. He made a report at the Fort Wellington police station.
Ramdass noted that the following day, his son visited the farm and checked to see what had had happened “and when he checked the farm, he found some leakage from a spray can that sprayed the farm