As a result of a prolonged drought, Guyana is now battling an increase of wildfires countrywide, and Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday stressed that the livelihoods of communities are being affected with farmers even requesting the help of accessing irrigation water.
He said that the drought has killed crops in some communities countrywide and even on the, “coastal belt we’ve had many communities that have asked us for water, irrigation water.”
According to him, he met with a group of farmers from Region Three who informed him that they were running out of irrigation water.