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Feb 27, 2016 News
General Manager of the Guyana Rice Development Board (GRDB), Nizam Hassan, has reported that the
Board is working in collaboration with other agencies to save the remainder of the current rice crop, even as El Niño weather conditions continue to adversely affect the industry.
Hassan, on Thursday, said that the rice industry remains the hardest hit during these extremely dry conditions.
A Government release said that currently, 188,672 acres has been cultivated in Regions Two, Three, Four, Five, Six and Nine, for the 2016 spring crop.
“… Just about 84 percent of that crop that was targeted has been sown and this is a good demonstration of the resilience of the efforts of the farmers and all other support services that contribute towards the growing of rice in these challenging times,” the General Manager said.
According to the data provided, Regions Three and Five are the most affected by the dry weather conditions.
However, NDIA has been working to clear the main irrigation channel in Region Three; while in Region Five pumps are supplying water from the Mahaica and Mahaicony Creeks to the cultivated areas.
Of the 188,672 acres sown, 21,365 acres are affected while 1,321 acres have been lost. According to Hassan, the total expected production target from the six rice growing regions at the end of the crop is 450,000 tonnes.
“In Region Three about 300 acres have been lost out of the 13,300 acres sown, but Region Three of itself is not one of the bigger rice producing regions; the target was 21,339 tonnes (of paddy). In Region Five, out of almost 86,000 acres which has been sown, just 290 acres has been lost. When we look at the overall figure of what was sown and what was lost, it is just under one percent.”
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