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Feb 28, 2023 Letters
Dear Editor,
It is nice to have another oil conference with other topics in Guyana.
When one examines Guyana’s contribution to the oil explorers of the world, Exxon, the irresistible conclusion is that Guyana, bearing the costs of Exxon’s wealth, is a subsidy and alms given to a neo-colonial economic investor. The billions of dollars rendered to Exxon and its associates leave the farmers of Guyana as mud rats seeking to eke out a living from mother Earth whilst facing the disaster of flood, drought and low market price of their products; yet there is articulated policy of food security in Guyana and the region.
May it be pointed out that the rice farmers are at the mercy of the monopolistic rice millers who arbitrary fix prices in order to bolster their profits to the detriment and pain of rice producers. The farmers for example; loans are given by the millers to farmers at high interest rate. The inputs, that is, fertilizer and all the accompanying necessary treatment for pest control are purchased at astronomical prices, yet the GRDB, the RPA, remain impotent in their aid to these unfortunate body of farmers in Guyana who continue to dwell in debt and lean income.
To correct this pain and shame it is herein suggested:
Let subsidy to the farmers be paramount, harness the potential energy of the youths who do not have capital, then Guyana will attain the status of an agrarian democracy.
Respectfully,
J.T. Kissoon
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