Rice farmers are starving, yet they find millions for bandits.

Crooked like rass, this seems to be a common thing among some coolie people. Jagdeo is a good teacher.  

Tola, I am not really certain what you are saying here in this post. Also, regardless of the qualities of the previous leadearship in Guyana, the industry is facing serious problems because of the price of  paddy paid to farmers. This industry affects approx 30000 families and more if we look at the multiplier effect. Additionally, it is a large export earner. Most likely, the larger planters will still be making money even at the low prices, but the small planters cannot. The millers will always be making money, except in case of poor financial management because they set the price at which paddy is bought, have little or no competition or collude with the other millers in the area to set price. It is unconscionable that the government is not intervening to help the industry. It is political and economic folly for them to stay glued to the position that the industry is a private one so the government will not get involved. They did promise the planters better paddy price during the election campaign. One has to wonder about the difference in treatment by this government between the gold and rice industries, since they are both private industries, both large export earners, employ lots of Guyanese, lots of families depend on them. The government intervened to help the gold industry through tax concessions but has a hands off policy for rice.

The rice farmers can turn to fish farming. There is a great demand for Tillapia Prawns and Shrimps. Rice farmers have never starved. Everyone in Guyana seems to know how to beg.

This is the redistribution of wealth, take from Indians and give to Blacks. It happened in Linden when the the then opposition rioted to ensure the subsidies to electricity there. Today turncoat Mitwah have no sympathy for his own but rather give to the white mouth Blacks in civil service rather than the hard farmers who drive the economy.  

Mist, you really need to come here to Guyana, I will get some land for you and you can show us how to do it. Did I say anything about them starving? All we know is how to beg.

Zeddy, can you show where I posted that you said something about starvation? I am beggar too; I beg Bhagwaan everyday to uplift Guyana.

Point taken. 

we still will have the short term adjustment problems that will need special consideration. Fish and  shrimp farming is often touted as an alternative to the sugar industry. I wonder why the government is considering the production of sugar at a great loss instead of taking up Tony Veira's idea of fish farming. Maybe they know something we do not know. 

All I know is that two friends came from abroad and got into fish farming in the mahaicony and lost their shirts. Their hair turned grayer than mine. Eventually, they returned to Canada broke.

You ah wan real skoanthole. You ah lie more than Jagdeo, Nagamootoo and Ramjattan combined.

What is gold getting?  NOT guaranteed prices.  As prices drop many of the marginal miners have been driven out of the business.

Rice farmers not paid by millers, they then demand that the govt pays them.  They demand that the govt guarantees the prices that they receive.  They want guaranteed loans from the banks.

Small gold miners are NOT demanding this.

druggie back in full force with his "black man lazy" nonsense.

Druggie this is why the PPP lost and will lose again.

Caribny, Gold miners are receiving tax breaks on some of their inputs even though it is a private industry, something the present government holds is the reason why they will not get involved In helping the rice industry. This is what I was referring to. 

Where did I mention that Blacks are lazy. The govt is favoring Blacks in civil service who consume tax dollars rather than the farmers who actually produce the tax dollars. 

Zed,the rice farmers should ask for reduction on cost for

fertilizers,pesticides,machinery spare parts and fuel,this

can be done by reducing the taxes on these items,so their

cost of production can be reduced.

The farmers need to get out their book and pencil a

tabulate their cost if rice is not profitable,use the

land for other agricultural products.

I acquired a small business in 2005,we do work for

manufacturers and insurance companies on a

contractual basis,multi billion dollar industry when

the market crashed in 2008 income was affected due

to reduction in labor rates,i had to lay off employees,

diversify the business and cut cost to keep the door

open,in the USA i can't ask the govt to intervene,we

are on our own either you make your business profitable

or close the door.

Rice farmers want more than tax concessions.  They want price guarantees.

The fact that you cannot see this shows how lazy you are.  Teachers are civil servants, as are nurses and cops. Now show me how Guyana can function without these people.

Why don't you endorse rice being treated like bauxite. 100% market forces, and if people starve, too bad.