The Ministry of Agriculture’s National Drainage and Irrigation Authority (NDIA) has taken remedial action after it discovered salt water contaminating the water supply of Good Faith, Mahaicony farmers and will be monitoring the situation periodically, NDIA head Lionel Wordsworth said.
“The water quality in some section reports showed saline so we went up and pumped it out and will continuously monitor the situation,” Wordsworth told the Stabroek News when asked for an update on Friday.
He noted that following reports by this newspaper about complaints from 23-year-old cash crop farmer Anil Bharrat about infiltration of salt water in the irrigation system and its effects on crops, the Ministry of Agriculture deployed engineers to the area to investigate as promised and they remedied the situation.
