Replacement
Some 33 years ago, global politics and economics combined to force Guyana into searching for a replacement for wheat flour. Guyana turned to rice because it produced the commodity and felt that it could turn some of its rice output into flour. It was a tall order because the technology to make flour from rice was still evolving, and therefore, the value-added food products that were made from rice flour were not as appealing as they became years later. In that scenario, rice was used as a tool for crisis management. Today, rice has re-emerged into the limelight of the economy as a consequence of another crisis of the global political and