Essequibo farmers lined the Reliance to Anna Regina road yesterday with tractors and machinery on which they placed scarecrows to depict the deaths of their livelihoods due to the low paddy prices.
Farmer Sham Narine said the scarecrows represented “those farmers who are hanging themselves or drinking poison because they feel like this situation isn’t going to get better.”
As the protest entered its third day, he stated that farmers brought out their tractors and other machinery because
