The Guyana Rice Development Board (GRDB) yesterday announced the deployment of a team of extension officers to investigate reports that “worms” have infected the roots of rice plants in some villages in Berbice, which is expecting a bumper harvest for the first crop this year.
The GRDB said unverified reports have so far indicated that worms have affected the yields of rice ready for harvest in the villages, which are located along the Corentyne coast.
Over the next few days, a GRDB statement explained, extension officers, headed by Entomologist Dr. Vivien Baharally, of the research station at Burma, Mahaicony, will be investigating the reported sightings of the worms, with a view to identifying and recommending methods of control.
It was noted that