Guyana tries out rice cultivation on savannah

The government of Guyana is looking into the possibilities of cultivating rice and other crops in the interior savannah, reports Alertnet. As sea levels rise due to the climate change, the areas of agricultural lands in the low-lying coastlands decrease, posing a food security and environmental hazard issue.

“We are observing the cropping pattern and we have been integrating the rice with bean cultivation. We observe how the weather affects these hitherto coastal crops, looking at rainfall patterns and temperature conditions, soil type and so on,” said the Rice Producers Association’s general secretary, Dharamkumar Seeraj.