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Reply to "FUTURE OF RICE"

If the rice industry is not profitable because too much production is on small acreages, than it makes sense to redirect these farmers to other crops where they can be more competitive.

 

The CARICOM food bill is why, so why doesnt Guyana finally take advantages of these opportunities.  Especially as there is an increasing demand from tourists at the higher end facilities for organic food.

 

Leave rice production for the larger, more highly mechanized farms. That is if Guyanese rice farmers do not want to share the fate of banana farmers in islands like St Vincent, and St Lucia, where they were similarly not able to compete against large scale producers, and so couldnt survive outside of preferential markets.

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