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The Rice Action Committee (RAC) has issued calls for the A Partnership for National Unity/Alliance for Change (APNU+AFC) government to follow through on several promises made in the party’s manifesto, aimed at resuscitating the local agricultural sector, prior to the 2015 elections.According to the APNU+AFC manifesto, one of its proposals was the re-establishment of the Guyana Agricultural and Industrial Development Bank (GAIBANK), in order to facilitate financing for farmers. According to Co-Chairman of the RAC,NFL Jerseys Cheap, Jinnah Rahaman, while this was a much needed venture, the Government still had to take steps to curtail its input in managing the bank.“The rice industry is a private sector entity. There is no need for Government, under any circumstances to be controlling it. The Minister of Agriculture should have nothing to do with managing the rice industry. The Government should just facilitate it,” the Rice expert said in a recent interview with this publication.According to him, while the Government should oversee Agriculture on a whole, micro-managing rice should not be the Government’s aim.He pointed to the proposed Agricultural bank, which he emphasised should be allowed to function on a commercial footing. He also advocated that, in addition to the usual characteristics of a local commercial bank, the Board of Directors should consist of entrepreneurs, Agricultural experts and farmers, for the bank to fulfill its mandate of Agricultural development.There have been calls over the years from industry stakeholders for the establishment of an Agricultural Development Bank and a revolving fund, as repeated delays by millers to pay farmers have resulted in widespread protests from farmers, due to monies owed for paddy purchases.There are also stipulations- the Rice factories Act of 2007- which make it mandatory that millers pay farmers half of the money owed upon delivery of paddy, with an additional 42 days given to complete payments.The GAIBANK initiative is not a new one. The bank, Guyana’s only development bank at the time, was rendered defunct by the then Dr. Cheddi Jagan administration in 1995. Created as a state owned development bank, its primary function was as a lending institution to the Agricultural and Industrial sectors.In a bid to redress financial difficulties and recover the loan portfolio, which was lagging behind,NFL Cheap Jerseys, GAIBANK was merged with the Guyana National Co-Operative Bank (GNCB) in 1995.Rahaman also pointed to several instances whereby the past government overreached in its control of the rice sector,NFL Jerseys Supply, including legislature allowing the Minister of Agriculture control of the rice board, where he can appoint or dismiss at his will. However, Rahaman stated that as the current Agriculture Minister Noel Holder inherited this law; it needed to be changed.Indeed, one of the promises in the APNU+AFC manifesto was the de-politicizing of the Guyana Rice Development Board (GRDB) and since its assumption of office, the board has undergone severe changes, including the resignation of its General Manager Jagnarine Singh and the advent of a forensic audit into the finances of the board.Meanwhile,Cheap NFL Jerseys China, Rahaman was also of the opinion that the sugar industry had reached a point whereby it should be privatized and given to the sugar workers.“The sugar industry should be privatized and the land partitioned and given to the sugar workers. These things have been politically manipulated by the past government. We must get rid of that.”“We must free up the system,NFL Jerseys Authentic, so that people (sugar industrialists) are able to do things freely. We have a free economy and a free market, so it should be operated in that framework. It should not be controlled by anybody.”Rahaman used the analogy of a cash crop farmer who,Cheap Jerseys Online, after harvesting his crop,Jerseys China Wholesale, should then be allowed to proceed to the market where he could sell his produce, without undue interference.“Why should the government control how he sells it? The government can regulate the price, so that consumers are not exploited. Yes, the Government can make laws, but it has no right to control people’s private business.”