Protesting Essequibo rice farmers made their way to Parliament yesterday to hand deliver a petition of over 1,000 signatures to Minister of Agriculture Dr Leslie Ramsammy, requesting that the ministry act to ensure payments are made for paddy.
The famers also requested that the Agriculture Ministry consider a bailout package that would allow farmers to repay their current debts.
Leaders of the APNU, David Granger, and AFC, Khemraj Ramjattan, told farmers that they would raise the various issues from low paddy prices to the need to reviewing the Factory Act in Parliament once the budget estimates were concluded.
Ramjattan told Stabroek News that the government was doing
