With Region Two’s rice farmers clamouring for higher prices for their paddy, Minister of Agriculture Zulfikar Mustapha on Thursday told them that millers have agreed to pay them $3,700 per bag of A Grade paddy—$200 more than what they were previously being paid.
Speaking to farmers in the auditorium of the Anna Regina Multilateral Secondary School, Mustapha said that in addition to the $200 increase, millers agreed that they will charge $100 less to reap their harvest with the harvesters.
He also told them that farmers that supplied paddy earlier in the crop will receive retroactive payments from millers.