Main opposition APNU yesterday said that the government’s announcement on Christmas Eve that it was advancing $2.1B to millers so they could meet obligations to rice farmers is intended to mislead the public and divert attention from the hardships faced by growers.
In a statement, APNU said that the announcement by the Minister of Agriculture, Dr Leslie Ramsammy that the Government is advancing $2.1B to millers “is deliberately intended to mislead the Guyanese public and divert attention from the existing pressures that these farmers are facing on a daily basis.”
It called on Ramsammy to explain the following:
If the farmers have delivered 600,000 tons of rice to the millers, valued at $42.0B, then the paddy price must have
