By Shabna Ullah and Pushpa Balgobin
Essequibo famers yesterday announced plans to up a protest over the “low prices” being offered for rice paddy by millers in the region.
Farmers plan today to line the Reliance to Anna Regina roadway, in Region Two with mechanical farming equipment and remain until action is taken to address what they are calling “outright robbery” by rice mills.
“We have to block this road and make the mills know that we can’t continue like this,” Naichram, an Essequibo rice farmer told Stabroek News, while noting that the mills are buying paddy for “$300, $500 only sometimes they want to buy for $1000 and when rice was selling before for $4000.” He said that the millers weigh the rice at approximately
