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$400M rice intervention:Government’s promise of a $400M assistance to rice farmers is to start filtering down today with vouchers for fertilizers being issued at Essequibo.According to a statement from the Guyana Rice Development Board (GRDB) yesterday, vouchers valuing between $2,Jerseys NFL Wholesale,200 per bag of fertilizer will be issued for every acre that eligible farmers have up to 30 acres.Several weeks ago, farmers hard hit by falling world prices had demanded help from government as paddy prices plummeted from $6,000 per bag last year to $2,Cheap Jerseys From China Online,200 per bag this crop.President Bharrat Jagdeo then announced that he was allocating $400M to assist the industry but consultations would have to be held with farmers before a decision would have been made on how the money is spent.Minister of Agriculture, Robert Persaud,Cheap Jerseys From China, said that based on consultation with farmers countrywide,Cheap Jerseys Authentic, $208M was made available for fertilizers and vouchers would have been issued to farmers eligible.Yesterday,Wholesale Jerseys China, the GRDB statement noted that the voucher programme,Jerseys From China, part of the government’s Assistance Programme for rice farmers, is being executed by the body in collaboration with the Guyana Rice Producers Association (RPA).But GRDB said the process was not going smoothly. “One of the biggest hindrances to this process is the incorrect information supplied to our extension officers. The information had to be verified and this is taking a long time, as we needed to have some verification done in the fields.”According to GRDB, the vouchers can be taken to companies identified by RPA and exchanged for fertilisers.The remaining part of the $400M intervention,Wholesale NFL Jerseys, some $180M will be used to construct drying floors, as decided in the consultation process, GRDB revealed.The construction of the floors will commence as soon as the ownership of the lands earmarked for this purpose is regularized.This process should be completed by January 2010.