If you do a search here you will see I have been saying the same for years. There are dozens of products made from rice that can b brought on line quickly. It is a matter of local entrepreneurial creativity.
They waiting for you to show them the way, just like you did with the cassava pone industry. Maybe Caribj can give the the guava cheeze lesson!
Caribj doesn't grow or mill rice, so has no reason to care.
I suggest that the rice industry ceases to be brats, and focuses om solutions to its problems. THAT is what the laid off bauxite workers had to do,
The bauxite dynamics were very different.
Yes. Only blacks worked in that, and given that they are useless, who cares. But Indians must be treated like royalty.
Listen bauxite is now privately owned, as sugar should also be, and as rice also is. If folks cannot compete gov't cannot help them.