Dear Editor,
The Angad Rupee Rice Mill is in the centre of the MMA/ADA project west coast, Berbice. This mill was closed down a few years ago. It was a new mill which just operated about two crops and closed. It has large silos that can take all the rice planted on the Abary section of the MMA/ADA project.
MMA/ADA should not run this mill, it should be given to the Guyana Rice Producers Association. All farmers on the MMA/ADA project should join this association and let both the MMA/ADA and the Guyana Rice Producers Association enter an agreement with the farmers that all paddy reaped has to be sent to this mill. All D&I charges farmers owe the MMA/ADA will be deducted by the mill and paid.
The government should give the Guyana Rice Producers Association the MMA/ADA’s silos and machinery which cleans seed paddy, and assist the farmers on the MMA/ADA with fertilizer. There should be a board meeting every month to look into how the mill is performing which should be headed by Mr Seeraj. The Prime Minister should be the Chairman or Mr Robert Persaud the Minister of Agriculture with farmers selected and members from the MMA/ADA, but first the MMA/ADA should waive all the s econdary D&I charges farmers owe then and rehabilitate all the works left to be completed. This is the only way to save the MMA/ADA from destruction. The government gave them the machines to do the work but many feel they squandered the 89 million and have the machines stuck at the MMA/ADA compound.
Everybody and thing has a nickname, MMA/ADA means More Money Always – All Done Again.
Yours faithfully,
Rudolph Singh
