Guyana is targeting the ‘topping’ the 710,000 tonnes’ rice production target of set in the country’s 2024 budget, an accomplishment that will provide an encouraging measure of assurance in circumstances where the rice industry is challenged to both meet domestic consumption needs as well as to shoulder its responsibility to the wider regional needs in the context of helping to meet the food security challenges facing the wider Caribbean.
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