FOR countless rice farmers across Guyana, every rooted stalk carries a risk, with climate change intensifying droughts, floods and erratic weather patterns ...

Speaking on the government’s broader plan to modernise food production at the opening of GuyExpo 2025 last week, President Ali announced that rice farmers will receive support to convert a portion of ...

The Guyana government says it has injected more than GUY$7.2 billion (One Guyana dollar=US$0.004 cents) in the rice industry ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) — Venezuela has decided to stop buying much of Guyana’s rice crop amid an escalating border dispute between the South American neighbors, the Guyanese finance minister said ...

Sugar production expanded by 136.7 percent in the first half of 2025, while the rice industry recorded a 13.9 percent ...

Following President Dr Irfaan Ali’s recent announcement that rice farmers will receive $300 for every bag of paddy produced during the second crop, Agriculture Minister Zulfikar Mustapha has indicated ...

Rice farming, with intricate irrigation systems and tight-knit farming communities, has long been suspected of fostering collectivism. However, proving this theory requires navigating confounding ...

Rice farming is hard. It’s complicated. Traditional rice farming takes twice the amount of labor as crops like wheat, corn and potatoes. Paddy rice was built on irrigation networks that forced farmers ...