Minister of Agriculture Dr. Leslie Ramsammy and a high-level team is scheduled to visit the Cozier farming area on the Essequibo Coast on Friday to meet with farmers.

According to a release from the Department of Agriculture, the Minister is expected to meet with both rice farmers and other crop farmers on the ground to have discussions on the development of the fertile farming area which has some 6,000 acres.
Farmers in Cozier are cultivating hundreds of acres with rice, coconuts, ground provision,black eye and red peas and vine crops.Farmers over the years have being calling for an all -weather farm- to- market road in the Cozier area, so that their produce could be transported quickly to markets.
The Government over the years has spent huge sums to clear drainage canals that were heavily silted and overgrown with bushes, after the scheme had been abandoned by the previous PNC regime. A sluice that was left abandoned by the previous Government was also refurbished and a new pump was installed by the PPP/C Government under the leadership of then Region Two Chairman Mr. Alli Baksh.The intervention of the Government to develop the fertile agricultural scheme has triggered an increase in cultivation.

(RajendraPrabhullall in Essequibo)