Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo has denied that the government promised to pay rice farmers in Berbice $9,000 a bag for paddy and has challenged the opposition PPP/C to name the person who made the promise.
Members of the opposition have accused the government of making the promise and the accusation was repeated during last week’s debate in the National Assembly of a motion that sought to reverse increases in land rent and other charges to farmers in the Mahaica, Mahaicony, Abary-Agricultural