Guyana clinches sweet rice deal

GIVEN a favourable price, Guyana can export some 150,000 tons of rice and paddy, duty-free, to Mexico before the end of December this year, the Ministry of Agriculture has said.
Rice and paddy consumption in Mexico exceeds one million tons per year, and according to the Agriculture Ministry, Mexico imports more than 80 per cent of the grains.
According to the ministry, just March 1, 2017, the Mexican government gazetted the authorisation to import 150,000 tons of rice and paddy, duty-free from Guyana before the end of December 2017.