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Agri team briefs Essequibo rice farmers

Feb 04, 2014 News

During a routine visit to Region Two, members of the Ministry of Agriculture, including Permanent Secretary George Jervis and Junior Minister of Agriculture, Ally Baksh held a briefing session with the staff of the Guyana Rice Development Board and members of the Guyana Rice Producers Association with the aim of educating staff to adopt a more ‘on the ground approach’ with Rice Farmers.
Additionally, staff members were told to ensure that farmers are being made aware of the right approaches and options that are currently available to them regarding marketing.
Permanent Secretary of the Agriculture Ministry, George Jervis, has said that although the Agriculture Ministry has availed free counsel representation for farmers, who are still being owed by rice millers, farmers are however, reluctant to challenge those rice millers through the courts out of fear of the rice millers refusing to purchase their paddy.
Jervis has also encouraged GRDB staff to have a fair deal with millers. He said Venezuela is a finite market.
Minister Baksh said farmers need to be continually “Educated.” He said with the backlog of some120, 000 tons of paddy remaining in the system from previous crops, the possibility exists that there could possibly be problems with storage when harvesting commences later this month.
Baksh admonished that while the market is not a problem, the price for paddy is a problem due to the fact that prices vary from crop to crop.
The current spring crop will commence this month and some 300 acres are to be harvested.
Meanwhile, affected farmers in the Lower Pomeroon River received a variety of young fruit plants to restart their cultivation.  Farms were inundated under water in mid-January.

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