Black Bush farmers complain about flooding
-Mustapha hints at reversal of some fees, rentals
Minister of Agriculture, Zulfikar Mustapha was yesterday told about serious flooding in Black Bush Polder, Corentyne and he told farmers that the new government is working to ensure that there is more money in their pockets.
Mustapha stated that in order to accomplish this goal the government is looking at reversing the increases in drainage and irrigation fees, land rentals and removal of VAT from agricultural inputs such as machinery, pesticides and fertilizers.
“We will be having a budget on Wednesday and all those measures hopefully can come out from the budget, some of the promises we have made in our manifesto we will have some of those measures coming out from that budget”, he said.