Guyana Rice production passes 500,000-tonne mark

Guyana has recorded its biggest ever rice production, surpassing the 500,000 tonnes targeted for 2013.
And it is more than likely that final figures will indicate production has gone past the target by an astounding 100,000 tonnes, Agriculture Minister Dr Leslie reported yesterday.
”On Monday, the twenty-first of October, for the first time in our history, we reached a goal which many persons in this country said would be impossible, and those who believed it was possible thought that it would not happen till 2020. On the twenty-first of October 2013, Guyana surpassed 500,000 tonnes of rice in our production,” the Minister disclosed in a Government statement.