Efforts by the Ministry of Agriculture (MoA) are underway to take supplies to the farmers in the Potaro-Siparuni (Region Eight) area who suffered losses in last week’s flashfloods which destroyed 266 farms.
The Ministry of the Presidency in a statement last evening said that considering the water has completely receded, teams from the MoA will be visiting the Region to assist in the replanting process.
Permanent Secretary of the Ministry, Joylyn Nestor-Burrowes, after a meeting with the acting Director General of the Civil Defence Commission (CDC), Major Kester Craig yesterday,