The Essequibo rice farmers protest has been gaining momentum. The farmers are continuing to decry the price for paddy. Friday’s protest saw some 75 rice farmers taking?to the streets again.The protest march began from the Cotton Field New Market and converged at the Anna Regina High Bridge.President of the Essequibo Paddy Farmers Association,Cheap Nike NFL Jerseys, Naith Ram,Wholesale Authentic Jerseys, said that he continues to lobby on behalf of his fellow farmers for an audience with the Minister of Agriculture,Jerseys Wholesale, Dr Leslie Ramsammy and General Manager of Guyana Rice Development Board,cheap jerseys from china, Jagnarine Singh.Ram has maintained that unless rice farmers are made aware of what price they would be getting for a bag of paddy, it would not be economically viable to go back into the next crop.He has argued that the cost of production is way higher than what farmers are been paid for?paddy.“It’s not economically viable and we the rice farmers are feeling the squeeze.”Ram said that he would continue to protest unless he sees some drastic improvements in the rice sector. He said that for years now millers have continued to owe farmers millions of dollars.He is also lobbying for a revision of the Factory Act,Cheap NFL Jerseys China, which states that millers must pay farmers within 42 days after paddy would have been sold.Currently while rice is been harvested on the Essequibo Coast, some millers are paying $2,Discount NFL Jerseys,700 for paddy. The deal between Venezuela and Guyana has since been signed. Venezuela purchases twenty-five percent of Guyana’s rice annually.Ram has stressed that the protests action will continue into the following week.