The first rice shipment that left the local shores less than a week ago has reached its destination, Venezuela, two days ago.According to a source, the Panamanian vessel ‘Pacific Clipper’ docked in the Spanish speaking country a few days ago and the offloading of close to 5000 tonnes of paddy has been completed.The source said that another vessel would be used to transport the second shipment, which should leave by the second week of this month.It has been disclosed that ninety percent of the payment,Jerseys NFL Wholesale, to the three millers that supplied the first shipment of paddy, has been made and the final amounts are to be made soon.Additionally, Kaieteur News,holesale Soccer Jerseys, has learnt that the Venezuelan authorities have already made available, enough money to pay for the first three shipments.This is despite those that have not yet been supplied to Caracas.Early this year, President Bharrat Jagdeo, brokered a deal with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez after the local rice industry encountered unprecedented problems.The deal, which was signed early in the year, saw the South American country sourcing from Guyana,Wholesale Nike NFL Jerseys, 50,000 tonnes of rice – 10,000 tonnes of white rice and 40,Cheap NFL Jerseys Online,000 tonnes of paddy at US$330 and US$560 per metric tonne respectively.The deal between the two countries will see Guyana earning US$18.8M. Additionally,China Jerseys Cheap, President Jagdeo was forced to inject $400M to mitigate some of the problems the industry was experiencing.Back then farmers were receiving $2,Cheap NBA Jerseys China,000 per bag of paddy, which they said meant that they were not even recovering the production cost, let a lone making a profit.