Dear Editor,
The Guyanese ‘farmer’ and the Guyana ‘rural areas’ occupy a moral, productive and rather intellectually dishonest space in our city folks mental programmes. The ‘farmer-first’ rhetoric of Guyana policy-makers, politicians and urban dwellers means that we see the Guyanese farmer as frozen in time, seated wisely and calmly next to the fields of rice, cattle, wearing simple clothes, speaking in simple phases of broken Indian and English, and representing the food basket of the nation in the urban commercial centres.
