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Originally Posted by BGurd_See:
Originally Posted by caribny:

Druggie, neither you nor I know much about farming, but I do believe that organic farming is more easily done on small holdings than it is on mega estates.

 

So Guyana might well be able to craft a brand based on being organic (they will have to conform to specific criteria) as well as "socially conscious", given that it is peasant grown, and so beneficial to local communities.  Folks are actually willing to pay more for this, but a brand awareness must be created.

 

Crying that Venezuela isn't going to buy Guyana rice, because Granger didn't allow Maduro to roam the world claiming that Essequibo would be theirs, but for Obama, isn't going to solve the rice industry's problems.  Stormborn might be off base, but at least he is showing a type of innovative thinking that the rice industry should.

Looks like you and d2 have ideas, however neither seem confident or bold enough to implement them. It is easy to sit in an armchair and speculate solutions as a theorist, however not so easy to get personally involved. 

 

That being said, the industry will find its way like water to the ocean or will die trying. 

I discuss possibilities.  It is up to the rice industry to develop those of their own, instead of behaving like spoiled brats, wailing when the gov't doesn't rush to wipe their tears. Rice is the only private industry that behaves like this.  If this is their attitude the government should nationalize the industry and turn the whole lot into laborers.

FM
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