What is known as Parika Back is an expansive area situated roughly two and a half miles from the Parika Public Road. Its appearance suggests that it has existed in the present state from time immemorial. It appears too, to have been divinely designated for farming.
The entire area is divided into four communities: Ruby Back, Parika Back, Naamryck, and the Savannah Backlands. Collectively, the communities are well-known for their prolific cultivation of cash crops, primarily vegetables. Cattle and poultry-rearing are pursued here too.
No matter what your substantive pursuits are, if you live in Parika Back you are, in one way or another, hinged to farming. Teachers and other public servants who reside here… they too are ‘farmers’ even if their spreads may sometimes cover a meagre half an acre.