Prompt payment for rice farmers in Venezuela deal

From left is Ganga Persaud, Shamlall Dindial, Sewnaraine Seecharan and Tameshwer Romnauth.

Minister of Agriculture Robert Persaud yesterday handed over more than $136M to the Region Two Farmers’ Group for paddy supplied under a deal recently inked with Venezuela.

Two cheques were presented to the group’s secretary and other members at the Ministry of Agriculture. These represent payments for 2061 tonnes