In the light of the last crop’s “confusion” over paddy prices, the Guyana Rice Development Board (GRDB) General Manager Jagnarine Singh says prices will remain steady, while assuring farmers, especially those in Essequibo, that millers have been found to be compliant with industry regulations.
Singh said that following the complaints by rice farmers about millers paying low prices for paddy during the second crop, the GRDB was fully utilising its 18-point checklist to ensure that millers were following regulations.
“We have a checklist… and when we went and visited all the mills, except one that isn’t operating right now, they were all 99 per cent in compliance,” Singh told Stabroek News.
He said that since the last rice crop, farmers had raised concerns that the
