The Guyana Rice Development Board (GRDB) has expressed confidence that rice production this year would be “excellent” despite the novel coronavirus pandemic fallout and assures that that there will be adequate supplies for local, regional, and extra-regional markets.
According to a Department of Public Information (DPI) release, GRDB’s General Manager, Nizam Hassan, expressed this confidence yesterday while stating that all quality assurance services continue to operate as usual since rice exportation is ongoing.
“We don’t expect that there will be any fallbacks from our projections, and for this year just as we had done last year, we expect that we will get over 1 million tonnes of paddy, which will be equivalent to approximately 700,000 tonnes rice.
