A Barbados company is pushing ahead with a mega farm in Region Nine, which will have rice as its centrepiece with 120 acres of the crop currently under cultivation and another 980 acres expected to be sown by the end of June.
The project-operated by the Simpson family of Barbados-has been in the making since 2010. In September 2010, then Agriculture Minister Robert Persaud had said that the project at Santa Fe in the North Rupununi had seen some $156 million being spent up to that point. This year, the company stepped up the pace with the sowing of rice as it expanded its operation.
The Government Information Agency (GINA) reported on Friday that along
