Amid low paddy prices, rice farmers urged to focus on yield

Allison Peters, Quality Control Manager and Kuldip Ragnauth, Extension Services Manager of GRDB

With a drop in the paddy price from $4,500 per bag over two years ago to less than $3,000 per bag, farmers have been advised to focus on increasing their productivity so that their yields can become higher.

“Once your yields go up your cost automatically comes down. So that is one of the ways of surmounting the prices…,” says Extension Services Manager of the Guyana Rice Development Board (GRDB), Kuldip Ragnauth.

In a recent interview with Stabroek News, he said the GRDB has been working with the farmers on