HEAVY, consistent rainfall over the past few days has caused serious flooding of farms in the Cozier Agriculture Scheme on the Essequibo Coast.One cash crop farmer, Carl Roberts, said his and several others are flooded with some six inches of water that have overflowed from drainage trenches.

He said a plot of 10 acres that is planted with water melons, pumpkins and corn, by himself and family members, Goberdhan, Orlando, Roy and Sylvester, has perished in the flood.
Roberts said the watermelon plants were growing well and about to start bearing when the flood came.
He said one tin of water melon seeds cost him some $10,000 and he estimated the loss on the 10-acre plot to be more than $3M.
Roberts said he and all the rest of farmers depend on the farms for their livelihoods and a report was made to the Agriculture Office at Anna Regina.
Meanwhile, another Cozier farmer, Darrel Benn, said he has lost some three acres of young red peas plants and several fields with suckers and cassava plants are also flooded in the very fertile Cozier area.