Guyana intends to tap into Brazil’s lucrative rice market, if all goes well for a Barbadian company farming in the Rupununi, and take advantage of under-utilized rice mills in the Portuguese-speaking nation while reducing imports of stock feed here.
The Barbadian firm, Simpson Group of Companies, sees its demonstrative farm plots on the Santa Fé mega farm in Region 9, as a huge success and as such is planning not only to expand farming and increase investment but to assist Guyana