Despite the rice industry facing challenges throughout last year, General Manager of the Guyana Rice Development Board (GRDB), Nizam Hassan, said that over the two crops, 965,120 tonnes of paddy was produced, attaining 90% of the industry’s target.
This achievement, Hassan explained, brought the country’s national yield up from 5.6 tonnes per hectare in 2017 to 5.8 tonnes per hectare in 2018. As a consequence, they were able to export 470,312 tonnes of rice and rice products to the international markets, raking in US$186 million last year.
This pronouncement was made by Hassan through a video presentation titled ‘GRDB’s 2018 End of Year Report’, which was uploaded on the Board’s website and YouTube page on January 8.
