Following complaints from a Good Faith, Mahaicony farmer about infiltration of saltwater in the irrigation system and its effects on crops, the Ministry of Agriculture says that it will dispatch engineers to the area to investigate, as it is unaware of the issue.
“I am not aware of that but I will send the engineers tomorrow to check,” National Drainage and Irrigation Authority Head, Lionel Wordsworth, told Stabroek News on Sunday when contacted.
When Stabroek News last week visited Good Faith, 23-year-old cash crop farmer, Anil Bharrat lamented that his family was suffering from the effects of saltwater from the Atlantic Ocean seeping into the Mahaicony Creek which is used to irrigate crops.
