WIN’s mechanized farming answer to inflation

Dear Editor,

I write in response to the letter by Surujdai Juglall captioned “Broad money has grown far beyond historical norms and the effects are being felt on the poor” (Kiskadee Watch, October 18, 2026). The writer is correct that broad money growth has outpaced the non-oil economy and that ordinary Guyanese are bearing the cost. However, the letter identifies only half the problem. The other half is supply—or rather, the failure to expand it. I am cognizant of the fact that the writer has directed the questions to us for answers.

I am tasked by the WIN Party, led by Mr. Azruddin Mohamed, to share some of our internal policy thinking on this matter. The Leader of the Opposition has been on the front lines listening to the people’s cost-of-living plight and as a successful businessman, he has mastered the art of multiplying wealth for his family and stands ready to multiply that wealth for the people. He was a billionaire before he came to politics, so he has no need, like the PPP, to put his hand into the Treasury.

Our team has been studying the issue, and while we have an action plan for 2030, which we will implement on day one of our administration, we are inviting the PPP to begin implementing these measures now—because the Guyanese people cannot wait.

The missing half: Supply, not just money

Food prices rose significantly since 2023. The government’s own Mid-Year Report attributes this to imported inflation, demand pressures, retail mark-ups, and weather. Every one of these is a supply-side problem. Tighter money alone will not permanently lower the price of food Guyana must import. The PPP’s response—cash grants—is incremental. What is missing is a plantation-scale agriculture that is totally mechanized to permanently change the cost structure of production itself.

Two WIN policy measures of the many

1. A Workers’ Shareholding Local Content Program

We propose that every public project and every foreign investment over GY$1 billion requires the winning contractor or winning investor to sell 5 percent of the project value to a Guyanese shareholding company owned by workers earning under GY$500,000 per month and paying NIS. The Treasury pays for these shares on behalf of these workers. Dividends flow annually, tax-free to these workers.

Consider the Versailles to Parika road project: GY$132 billion over three years^[1]. Under the WIN Team model, at least GY$8 billion would go directly to working-class shareholders. Today, they received zero from the plundering PPP Party on this project. This is not a cash grant. It is turning workers into owners. It creates a second income stream tied to national development, and it incentivizes formal employment and NIS participation. It creates a pathway, if you want to work, then in Guyana you have a direct opportunity to gain wealth. The shares are locked in for five years and cannot be sold but can be pledged at the bank if you are building your home. This stimulates building long-term wealth, not immediate consumption. However, mandatory dividends are paid yearly at no less than $50,000 per shareholder which will be funded by the Government. Every teacher, every policeman, every nurse, every rice farmer paying NIS and earning less than $500,000 a month, will earn from this National Investment Company and it can be housed in NICIL, the Government Shareholding Company.

2. Plantation-Scale Mechanized Agriculture with Brazil

We will convert 2,000 hectares of the former Enmore Estate land on the East Coast of Demerara^[2] into 100 percent mechanized plantation agriculture, with Brazilian partners as lead investors. This will expand in every region as our people become more involved and trained in the new technologically advanced agricultural development. Brazil possesses the world’s largest reserve of undeveloped arable land and is one of the largest net food exporters globally. Its agricultural success rests not on land alone but on the technological innovation system built by Embrapa, with their expertise at tropical soil science, variety improvement, and precision agriculture.

Brazil has accumulated extensive experience in tropical crop cultivation, large-scale mechanized operations, and pest and disease management. Its “tropical agriculture technology package”—including no-till farming, biological nitrogen fixation, and integrated crop-livestock-forestry systems—can help Guyana achieve high yields while avoiding environmental degradation. Under the WIN Team, the Government of Guyana will pay for the marketing study and complete all the certification processes to export production from this area to anywhere in the world.

The Brazilian conglomerate will play a lead role in planning and operating this mega farm and will use their influence globally to get our products into the respective international markets into countries we never sold food to before like Angola and Portugal. Whatever they want, we shall produce, so the process will be market driven and supermarket ready – meaning if it is squash you want in Portugal, we shall grow it, we shall wash it, we shall peel it, we shall cube it and we shall package and label it all under the best international standard and ship it to Portugal. The operations will have the highest grade and levels of mechanization along every step of the process. All gains and wins from this project will be shared with the working class as part owners. Where Mr. Ali failed with his 25 percent reduction in food imports by 2025, a WIN Government will make Guyana the lead food exporter in the Caribbean. No need for semantics from State House.

Why This Works

Mechanized plantation agriculture attacks the “goods” side of the equation directly. More food produced locally at lower unit cost eases price pressure from imports and retail mark-ups. Higher agricultural exports generate foreign exchange, supporting exchange-rate stability and reducing imported inflation. And unlike austerity, this is investment-led—creating employment in mechanization operations, maintenance, logistics, and processing.

The shareholding model ensures the poor are not bystanders to foreign investment but direct beneficiaries. It does not take wealth from them; it builds the productive base on which their future earnings depend.

The Bottom Line

The most effective anti-inflation policy for Guyana is more goods, produced more efficiently, by a more productive workforce—and a distribution model that ensures the working class owns a stake in that productivity.

The WIN Team has many more public policy plans already developed. The people want change away from the binary forces of the past (PPP versus PNC driven by their racist politics). We are the only real option with the support from all classes of people and the policy action plan to develop Guyana without the sticky fingers of the Leonora Mafia in the pot.

Space does not permit more. But where this came from, there is much more as the WIN Team remain focused on bringing betterment for the people of Guyana.

References

1. CH&PA explains cost of proposed Versailles to Parika four-lane highway - News Room Guyana — newsroom.gy ↩
2. Transformation of Enmore sugar lands into industrial zone underway - Stabroek News — www.stabroeknews.com ↩