The Rice Producers Association (RPA) last week issued a warning to Essequibo farmers to use pesticides before a potential snail infestation.
General Secretary of the RPA, Dharamkumar Seeraj told Stabroek News yesterday that when he visited the area last week he received complaints from approximately 13 farmers. Seeraj stated that he visited some of the fields and noticed “an above normal amount of snails in the rice fields…we then thought