Lakraj Singh, Roy, as he is familiarly known, has spent more than twenty years selling spices to customers on the Essequibo Coast. He lives at Lot 13, Adventure, and used to be a cash crop farmer. Last weekend, his eye-catching stall at the public/private sector Uncapped agro processing event at the Sophia Exhibition Centre attested to the strides that his business has made over the years.
It was the overpoweringly pleasant aromas of geera and masala that took us to the stall. Geera and masala are key ingredients in Indian cuisine. Their health benefits are also touted.
We counted twenty spices… including black pepper, ginger, curry powder, cinnamon, mustard seed, nutmeg, clove, aniseed, pimento and turmeric and his Sales Manager son, Govinda, a Computer Science student at the University of Guyana was on hand to talk with us.