According to the Minister of Agriculture,Jerseys NFL Cheap, Robert Persaud,Wholesale NFL Store, the efforts at saving the drought-threatened crops of farmers around the country has the Government spending in the area of $3.2M daily to pump water into affected areas for use in crop irrigation.There has also been yet another $258M injection of cash into the ‘El Nino Fund’ as of late.The affected areas receiving the Ministry’s attentions in terms of assisted irrigation are spread mainly across Regions Two through Six and across the coastland from Somerset in Region Two to Rose Hall and Canje in Region Six.He noted that without the Intervention of the Ministry and Government,Nike Air Max 2018 Release, the agriculture sector would have possibly been facing at least $3B in losses but the figures have been much reduced by a combination of the Government’s interventions and prudence on the part of farmers nationwide as they struggle to save their livelihoods.This reduction brings the original estimate down by almost half,Calum Chambers Arsenal Jersey UK, however that still leaves the sector facing enormous losses and does not begin to encompass the resulting food shortages and price hikes that may occur later in the year as the longer term economic repercussions of the current situation begin to affect the general population.There are still no estimates on what the potential losses are in the areas of rice and sugar,Cheap Jordan Shoes For Sale, since officials claim that those figures can only be calculated at the end of the crop.However, the Ministry has expressed the opinion that a second crop in these industries may still be a possibility based on the projections of ‘normal’ rainfall during the approaching May/June rainy season as supplied by the Hydrometeorological Service.Whether the second crop may be able to fill the market gaps left by this ‘second’ crop remains to be seen in the months to come.