A Prime Minister and cabinet are responsible to the National Assembly, which has 65 members elected for a maximum term of five years. The President is Head of State. The country is divided into 10 administrative regions.
Most agriculture is concentrated on the coastal plain, where sugar is the main crop.
Most of Guyana s sugar exports go to Europe under the EU quota system. Output of rice has also grown in the 1990s, following a decade of decline because of greater investment in machinery and different varieties of rice with higher yields. Other farm products are coffee, cocoa, cotton, coconut, copra, fruit, vegetables and tobacco. Dairy herds are kept mostly on the coast and beef herds on the savanna inland. Fishing is mostly small scale, but both fish and shrimp are exported.