HYDROMETEOROLOGICAL stations attached to the Ministry of Agriculture, should use Mobiles to help weather forecasting systems. Weather forecasting has never been so crucial for Guyanese farmers and the government. Climate change means that they can no longer rely on the signs that they used in the past to help them decide when to sow and harvest. All of the regions are affected by the current rains. The worst affected areas are Regions 5 and 6 as several areas in the two regions remain under floodwaters due to the heavy and persistent rain.
I think technology offers a solution, but with fewer stations, the weather-monitoring network is weaker in Guyana than the minimum level recommended by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). We suffered many environmental changes over the last decades, which led to the need to provide additional support drainage and mechanical pumps around the country. This became necessary to prevent serious flooding which normally results in the  loss of crops and livestock.
Under the Agricultural Support Services Programme (ASSP), the late Minister of Agriculture Sash Sawh had instructed transformation of the National Drainage and Irrigation Authority on January 1,2006, to lead the way forward for major improvement in our drainage system to avert flooding. It should be noted that the country’s  drainage systems depend on gravity flows from the sea and by extension some mechanical pumps.
As the situation now stands, the average daily rainfall  is expected to increase, and this will result in more flooding. The irregular rains have come as a result of the Inter Tropical Convergence Zone ( ITCZ) in the vicinity of the Guianas,