Georgetown: Guyana finalised a 50,000 tonnes rice export deal with Haiti through a shipment being loaded along the Essequibo Coast this week. Government is trying to sew up another 50,000 tonnes deal with Haiti through the public sector along with a small market in Belize, while aiming elsewhere.
Deputy Manager of the Guyana Rice Development Board (GRDB), Ricky Ramraj said the Haiti deal was done through the private sector with SAJ Rice Mill at Burma, Mahaicony, acting as a subcontractor for other millers.
It will allow for weekly shipments of 1,200 tonnes to 1,500 tonnes of rice to Haiti. Smaller millers will collaborate to supply SAJ with the amount necessary to meet the weekly shipment quotas.
The GRDB has been thrust into the responsibility of marketing Guyana’s rice overseas, according to the General Secretary of the Rice Producers Association (RPA) Dharamkumar Seeraj.
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