With the prices of fruit and vegetables still cutting a swathe through ‘tight’ budgets at Municipal Markets in large swathes of coastal Guyana, the considerable numbers of shoppers who put in their appearances at last Sunday’s Farmers’ Market, at the Police Sports Club Ground, Eve Leary must have been pleased with what could be a reduction to their ‘budgetary tensions’. With Christmas only having just come and gone, the event appeared to be an intervention by the Ministry of Agriculture designed to ease what had become a painful price ‘pressure’ which the municipal market vendors have been applying, If the response of the vendors has been that they are simply ‘passing’ the price gouging ‘buck,’ last Sunday’s early start to the Farmers Market ‘season’ appeared to suggest the Ministry of Agriculture may have opted to make an early remedial intervention.