The prevailing weather patterns in Trinidad and Tobago are giving some of the country’s farmers what one might call the customary Guyana experience of what the media in the twin-island Republic reports as extensive crop destruction due to what would appear to be heavier than usual levels of the year-end rainfall.
A report in the Friday November 11 edition of the Trinidad Guardian details the destruction of “hundreds of fields of fresh produce” on account of flooding during the accustomed rainy season, a circumstance which, the farmers are already warning, will have a direct impact on food prices in the twin-island Republic. The Trini farmers, however, have reportedly gone militant, some of them reportedly threatening to walk away from their farms until the dry season materialises, their argument being, according to the Guardian report that “it makes no sense to continue to suffer losses due to… flood damage.” Guyanese farmers can entirely appreciate both the plight and the mood of their Trinidadian counterparts, victims as they have long been of devastating seasonal deluges, wreaking havoc with crops and livestock and sending food prices into temporary tailspins.