Marketing arrangements within the rice industry in Guyana

Smith, W.C.

Marketing arrangements within the rice industry in Guyana

1986

Smith, W.C. (Caricom Secretariat, Georgetown (Guyana))

The major problems encountered in the Guyana rice industry include: drainage and irrigation, inadequacy of land preparation and harvesting equipment; inadequate storage and milling facilities, unfavourable weather, pests and disease and management. A generalized marketing system for paddy/rice is described on three levels: production, reaping and on farm storage; storage and milling and the marketing channel including the transportation links between farmers, the rice mills and consumers both local and foreign.

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AGROVOC Keywords

almacenamiento arroz circuit de commercialisation corrientes de mercadeo facteur de production guyana riz stockage

Bibliographic information

Publisher

University of the West Indies

Other Subjects

Factores de produccion; Guyane

Language

English

Note

4 ill., 1 table; *XG

Type

Conference; Non-Conventional

Source

Proceedings of the 17th West Indies Agricultural Economics Conference, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago, 9-12 Jan. 1984, Rankine, L.B. (West Indies Univ., St. Augustine (Trinidad and Tobago). Dept. of Agricultural Economics and Farm Management) (ed.).- St. Augustine (Trinidad and Tobago): University of the West Indies, 1986. p. 73-91

Conference

17. West Indies Agricultural Economics Conference, St. Augustine (Trinidad and Tobago), 9-12 Jan 1984

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