Georgetown: The Guyana Rice Development Board (GRDB) in partnership with the Minister of Agriculture, Dr. Leslie Ramsammy started an intense training programme for the graders at mills and for farmers across the region to better understand how the quality of rice is graded.
The GRDB which is the regulatory body of the rice industry and serves to ensure that training is done has started this programme in an effort to restore the confidence in the graders.
The General Manager of the GRDB, Jagnarine Singh outlined that they have currently divided the country into three regions and a Senior Officer will be sent at least twice a week to examine the day to day operations of the mill. This will be done to bring back some semblance of fairness and to ensure that the rights of the farmers are protected and they are graded fairly. The minimum requirements for farmers who are a part of the training programme is for them to at least know how to read properly The training will last for four straight weeks as they will be going to regions two, three, four, five and six.
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