The Guyana Rice Development Board (GRDB) is anticipating big things from its most recent variety of rice on trial in the sector across the country.
A GRDB source told this newspaper earlier this week that initial indications are that the new variety could even outperform the GRDB 10, which is performing favourably and which occupies around 42 per cent of the approximately 230,000 acres of rice lands across the country.
The new candidate variety which was developed at the local rice research institution at Burma on the