Rice farmers protest over low price, non-payment for paddy

Protesters along Vlissengen Road in front of the Ministry of the Presidency.

Amid growing pressure on the government to find new markets and to ensure reasonable prices to growers, scores of rice farmers from across Guyana yesterday sounded a call for promises made by APNU+AFC to them to be fulfilled.

This farmers made the call during protest action around 10.30 am which saw them marching in front of the Ministry of Agriculture,