Rice harvesting has commenced in Pomeroon-Supenaam, Region Two, with farmers being offered $4,000 per bag for their paddy. This price is being offered to rice farmers for all grades. Stabroek News spoke with a few rice farmers who accused the millers of colluding to offer them $4,000 per bag.
One rice farmer from Perservance said that he sold two truckloads of his harvest to a nearby mill and further alleged that he was “robbed” of his true weight.
“You see you getting the price but they fix the scale and no one from GRDB doing anything about it. My trailer load supposed to give me 125 bags [and] you better believe we only get 117. We get robbed! For 12 acres we supposed to get over 500 bags and we barely get 428 at $4,000 [each]” a rice farmer related.
