In 2024, rice production soared to a historic high of 725,282 tons, surpassing 2023 figures by 71,756 tons.

Guyana’s President Irfaan Ali on Saturday denounced an incursion by an armed Venezuelan naval vessel in disputed waters that are home to a mammoth offshore oil deposit being developed by ExxonMobil.

Exxon Mobil Corporation XOM, a U.S. oil and gas giant, has decided to proceed with the Hammerhead discovery as its seventh project in Guyanese waters. Discovered in 2018, the Hammerhead field is ...

He said that the harvesting has begun and that field officers from GRDB are at the mill to represent rice farmers. The government will be making an input to ensure that the $4,000 is paid by millers.

Venezuela has in the past four years purchased about 40 percent of Guyana’s rice production, or about 200,000 tons, paying for it with oil that amounts to about half of Guyana’s daily supply ...

Guyana’s president denounces Venezuelan incursion in offshore oil field operated by ExxonMobil By: The Associated Press Posted: 10:54 AM CST Saturday, Mar. 1, 2025 Last Modified: 3:02 PM CST ...