Dear Editor,

Although the information did not come from the Bureau of Statistics, we nonetheless thought we would mention that your figure for the Jan-June production of rice in the Stabroek Business article of August 6 captioned ‘January-June rice production up 8.4%’ has an error.

The figure quoted in your report is 188,287 metric tonnes (MT) (which would be 21% higher than budgeted, not 8%) while actual production is 168,267 MT (page 3 of your source: the Ministry of Agriculture’s commodity markets update).

This data comes from the Guyana Rice Development Board and is also given to us along with a number of other public agencies, which is why we were able to quickly recognise the error.

At the same time we would like to commend Stabroek News for its regular Stabroek Business feature, which is very informative.

Yours faithfully,
}Sharon Kreuter
Head
National Accounts Department
Bureau of Statistics