RICE farmers of Burma, Region Five (Mahaica-Berbice) have decried the condition of their main access road which connects the Burma Road to the Mahaicony Branch Road.
Farmers complained that the road is in a deplorable state and is limiting their ability to tend to their farm.

“This is the main access to the empolder area; it has about 7,500 acres of rice land and close to 500,000 bags of paddy have to go through here to get to the mills…the condition is becoming impossible to get that done,” said rice farmer, Bisnauth, during an interview with the Guyana Chronicle on Tuesday.

It was challenging to traverse the road but when the Chronicle got there the farmers were already prepared to air their concerns.
Bisnauth and other farmers said they are unable to harvest their crop because the produce cannot be transported through the deplorable access road.

Although the Regional Democratic Council (RDC) of Region Five (Mahaica-Berbice) did remedial work on the road on several occasions, it could not hold.
Once again the farmers said they implored the RDC to assist them. According to the farmers the council has since agreed to fix some of the fissures in the road.

One farmer, Harry, believes that they need the intervention of Central Government in order to get some long-term relief.

In addition to the farmers not being able to get their produce out of the area, residents within the community are affected as well because they too are unable to traverse easily.
Farmers requested that the Ministry of Agriculture includes them in the list of communities to benefit from farm-to-market roads.

Residents of the community believe that something should be done before the situation gets worse.