-floodwater down by 10 inches
By Bebi Oosman
Almost 80% of the intended rice crop has been sown in Black Bush Polder and the floodwater as of yesterday had dropped by ten inches, Regional Chairman, David Armogan reported yesterday.
After the Region Six council statutory meeting yesterday, Armogan who heads the Regional Agriculture Committee, told Stabroek News that “actually in terms of rice in the Black Bush Polder area we had about 75% to 80% of paddy being sown before the floods came.”
According to Armogan, as soon as the rain hit, a lot of farmers “released water from the rice field into the main drainage system so that would have compounded the problem so the water that was stored in the rice fields for growing purposes because of too much of water it had to be discharged into the drainage system so the rainfall and that compounded the problem.”