Chairman of the Guyana Millers and Exporters Marketing Association Dr Peter deGroot says that a meeting has been requested with Foreign Affairs Minister Carl Greenidge to update stakeholders in the industry on the impact the current border controversy with Venezuela will have on rice exports.
de Groot told Stabroek News that currently a team from the Guyana Rice Development Board is in Venezuela to discuss the remaining shipments of rice, including the over 170 containers that were left in limbo early last week.
“We met with the Minister of Agriculture [Noel Holder] last Friday… we discussed the controversy, of them stopping the