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First rice crop surpasses target despite El Nino
– GRDB
Rice officials say that rice production is set to continue to reach record levels with the first crop already surpassing the target.
Despite the El Nino weather conditions which ravaged lands across the country earlier this year, authorities say that the first rice crop has surpassed last year’s high.
As of Monday, last, with an estimated 11 per cent more of the crop to be harvested, almost 161,000 metric tonnes has been completed already. Last year, 163,428 metric tonnes were harvested for the first crop.
According to the Ministry of Agriculture yesterday, for the first crop, 63,802.17 hectares were cultivated with 56,417 hectares harvested or just about 88 per cent.
In Region Two, 90 per cent were harvested; Region Three—78 per cent; Region Four—97 per cent; Region Five– -84 per cent and Region Six almost completed with 97 per cent.
For the second crop, an estimated 76,000 hectares is targeted to be planted with some 45,000 hectares already prepared and almost 26,000 hectares or 33 per cent sown.
According to officials of the Guyana Rice Development Board, the increase in production has come despite the El Nino dry conditions earlier this year and last year. It was also as a result of the successful counter-measures taken by authorities to minimize the impact of the dry conditions which saw several acres lost.
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