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Opposition legislators want urgent parliament meeting on rice sector

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PARAMARIBO, Suriname, Aug 6, CMC – Opposition legislators have called for an urgent meeting of the National Assembly to deal with the rice production situation in the country even as President Chandrikapersad Santokhi Monday guaranteed rice farmers that the “government will not abandon you”.

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