The size of acreage brought under rice cultivation across the country for the 2013 first crop represents an all-time record for any crop, Guyana Rice Development Board (GRDB) General Manager Jagnarine Singh has told Stabroek Business.
Singh disclosed that a total of 81,628 hectares – the equivalent of 201,000 tonnes of paddy – were sown for the first crop this year compared with 78,000 tonnes for the first crop in 2012. He said rains had resulted in significant losses from last year’s first crop with around 74,000 tonnes being harvested. But according to the GRDB General Manager,
