Guyana seeking to recapture Venezuela rice market

Guyana is looking for opportunities to export rice to Latin American countries but efforts are also being made to rekindle relations with Venezuela and reclaim the market lost there, President David Granger said last Wednesday.

Granger, who was at the time speaking at the recording of “The Public Interest,” said that he did indicate to Guyana’s Ambassador to Venezuela that the government is interested “in the recovery of that market.”

Venezuela last year ended the importation of rice and paddy under the PetroCaribe barter arrangement. Venezuelan officials had said that