With the price for paddy remaining below $3,000 per bag for the past two years, President of the Rice Producers’ Association (RPA) Leekha Rambrich says less land is being planted and more farmers are “falling out” of the industry.
Rambrich told Stabroek News in an interview last week that there has been a “decline in cultivation, crop after crop, from 2015 to now and this is becoming a worrisome situation, especially for the milling association.”
Some of the small farmers from Leguan, who have had to hire combines and tractors to undertake the work in the fields, have opted to rent their lands.