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The President was at the time touring the Mibicuri Community Developers Centre, as a part of the ST. Francis Community Developers anniversary celebration, where he met with over a few dozens of residents from the area.
President Granger charged residents to look at new and innovative technologies, which would boost their productivity and reduce production cost.
He explained that the world market is a competitive one and as such framers and investors need to continuously look at the techniques they are using in the agriculture arena. Referencing the current rice situation, he said “I don’t think there is a problem [in the rice industry] but a challenge of getting more from production and accessing modern [farming] technology for production”.
“You are losing money when you have to wait 5-6 days to offload paddy. Other countries are not waiting; they are going and discharge in the silos and returning home to prepare their lands. So there are some factors in the industry that are raising the cost of production and creating problems,” President Granger explained.
The Head of State further announced that he would like to see an efficient rice industry where paddy framers are paid for their paddy. He also disclosed that at the recently concluded United Nations meeting in New York, he was seeking market for rice.
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Additionally, as the President touched on the topic of inventing and utilizing new technologies, he stressed on the importance of education.
“Education is so important because you can go on the computer and look at the different technologies being used in production,” he said.
He further explained his vision of transforming the education system in order for every young person to get an education. He stated that “we are trying to rectify the school system and have every child in school. Young people tend to drop out because of the problems in school and when they do, they cannot write, read or count properly.”
President Granger has been advocating for communities to take up the challenge and ensure every child is in school. He called on persons from the different walks of life who can afford to provide school necessities such as food, clothing, transportation fees, etc to children and ensure they are in school, while noting that persons need to break away from the culture of having welfare officers going to homes in the morning and pick up children.
You right DK, under your cockroach government only one stet of DRUG lords were not depressed,,,you all crying foul now, the dirty money grind to a halt,,,is plenty like you making the news at Brooklyn court ,,
Agriculture power house?.Where is the market for the harvest? Traditional rice our country major export is loosing ground.what plan have you in place for these people that dearly depends on rice from generation to generation granger?
Everyone must use their skill or talent for the benefit of the whole. That is why we have doctors, lawyers, farmers, construction workers, engineers, auto mechanics, nurses, teachers, factory workers, etc, etc
I hand-planted rice with my grandfather on his 3-acre plot back in the late fifties. I am sure that many of us are still alive to pass this expertise on.
The old regime coined the term – Cooperative republic. They had the theory correct, but it is up to this generation to implement it.
Let us germinate and hand plant some positivity.
Guyana could be Agriculture powerhouse – President tells Black Bush Polder residents.
One does not have to read the entire story not to know those who taking their photo with their installed president will never go into the muddy fields to plant nothing. What the installed president must do it get those that claimed they are oppressed and depressed from their depressed communities such as Linden- Buxton and Agricola to put them in chains and force them to work the fields. Guyana will never be no agriculture powerhouse with an installed PNC regime. Yall sick