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BBP farmers complaining of crops being destroyed by weedicides

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The use of weedicides by rice farmers in sections of the Black Bush Polder, Corentyne, Region Six (East Berbice-Corentyne), homestead is affecting cash crop and fruit farmers who say the chemicals are killing their plants. Some of those farmers are calling on the Agriculture Ministry to intervene. One such farmer is Samuel Ledra, who came to Mibicuri as a child in 1962, and has been farming for the past 40 years. Currently, the cultivates vegeta…

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By Andrew Carmichael The use of weedicides by rice farmers in sections of the Black Bush Polder, Corentyne in Region Six (East Berbice-Corentyne), homestead is affecting cash crop and fruit farmers who say the chemicals are killing their plants. Some of those farmers are calling on the Agriculture Ministry to intervene. One such farmer is […] The post BBP farmers complaining of crops being destroyed by weedicides appeared first on INews Guyana.

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