Rain over the past few days has offered some relief to parts of the parched Rupununi but Regional Chairman Bryan Allicock says that impacts of the prolonged drought would continue to be felt in the next few months and some form of food aid would be necessary.
“We got to brace ourselves for it,” Allicock told Stabroek News during an interview at his office in Lethem yesterday. He explained that farmers would normally prepare small farms in October and November so that by December, as soon as the rains came,