And while they can't help Maya King - the Prime Minister says government will do what it can to help farmers in the north who have been hit hard by drought. It's a joint effort between the DFC and the Ministry of Agriculture:..
Hon. Dean Barrow, Prime Minister
"We will provide seeds to farmers. The DFC has agreed again to suspend interest payments and government will actually fund seeds for replanting. So that's the sort of thing that we can do, but that's industrywide and individual farmers will benefit."
The Ministry of Agriculture estimates that drought losses in the agricultural sector this year exceed 30 million dollars.
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