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Nov 17, 2015 News
Minister of Agriculture, Noel Holder, in response to recent protests by sugar workers said, “The government
is not getting involved in that.”
So far, said Holder, the Government has had a hands-off position on sugar and production has since boomed. “We will not get politically involved in these things. When you do, you damage the economy as the previous government did.”
In relation to rice, he said that the opposition is trying to make a “Political thing out of it” but one has to be careful not to run with them. Venezuela was not the country’s only buyer. “For this year we have sold rice to 39 countries and we are looking at new ones (markets.) Mexico is one we’re looking at,” he said.
The Minister also commented on El Niño, “It hasn’t really kicked in as yet,” despite many Regions across Guyana already seeing its effects.
He went on to say that there is of course, as there always is, a 50/50 chance of El Nino coming, “But we would have to wait to see if the short rains scheduled from mid-November to the end of January will come.”
Until then, he added, water should be used judiciously by farmers.
THIS IDIOT TELLING GUYANA WE HAVE NO SAY IN THE 50% PROFIT SHARING AGREEMENT WE HAVE WITH EXXON.
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