ronan posted:Drugb posted:Gilly, I am not disputing that Afro labor was used to plant rice in limited quantities, after all they were slaves and did their masters bidding. What I question is which group really proliferated rice production to its current importance as an export crop today in Guyana. You will acknowledge that it was the Indo's that did this as evidence by the dearth of rice farmers today in Guyana. The ronans and caibjs will shout all day about how Blacks was responsible for man going to the moon and the cure for cancer, but history will tell a different story.
LIARD nonsense
no one EVER disputed that fact! . . . and the historical/economic reasons for this which has NOTHING to do with race
nice try at moving the goal posts moron
now, let's swing back to this idiot business of yours that rice was not a major crop in "Africa" . . . hmmm?
Bhai, leave that chap alone, if he knows the history of Guyana, he would be aware how rice planting was increased by East Indians.
Wanna bet he doesn't know the old varieties, before the new types was introduced.I grew up on a 3 acre rice farm.
There was a discussion about the old and new varieties of rice here on GNI.