Rice farmers walk their fields today with worried wrinkles on their faces, as they face poor paddy prices, uncertain international markets and hefty bank loans.
Word out of the Corentyne and Essequibo that rice farmers face dire straits this crop shows how much we fail to plan and engineer the kind of the society that works well in the 21st century world.
Our three major traditional pillars of the national economy – rice, sugar and bauxite –