
David Armogan
The Agriculture Ministry has been called on to determine the level of intervention it can provide to help farmers who have lost their crops to a wildfire raging for days at Crabwood Creek on the Corentyne in Region Six (East Berbice-Corentyne).
At least three farmers have told the publication over the weekend that the fire has consumed a large portion of their farms, and bearing plantain suckers have been destroyed. Farmers reported on Thursday that the fire was still burning.
In a comment to this publication on the situation, Region Six Chairman David Armogan said the Agriculture Ministry has been contacted after farmers at Torani Canal at Crabwood Creek, Corentyne reported that wildfires had destroyed some of their crops.
Farmers discovered last week Tuesday that the vegetation adjacent to cultivated fields was burning. The following day, aided by the wind, the fire crossed the canal and started burning sections of the cultivated area. One farmer said seven acres of his cultivated plot was destroyed, while another farmer said five of his 15-acre cultivated plot was destroyed; and yet another farmer reported that the fire had consumed a significant portion of his plantain cultivation.
