Guatemala's Agriculture Chamber of Commerce suggests that more financial support will provide an incentive to increase production.
Chamber President Carlos Zúñiga met Wednesday with deputies from the Agriculture Commission of Congress.
Zúñiga's proposal was to increase incentives to improve production.
"The issue of private property means that the owner is the one who decides how to use it," he said.
Some deputies will again propose obligatory seeding of basic grains on large farms that are not using all their land productively.
When the measure to force growing basic grains was defeated 40-74 in parliament last Tuesday, a group headed by Leonel Castañeda, president of the Agriculture Commission, prepared a new bill with a similar aim.
Under the new proposal, the state would set up a trust to buy the grain from the producers.
President Alvaro Colom of Guatemala has abandoned plans to revive a law that obliges farmers to plant basic grains.
The attempt to revive the law caused outcry among farmers and the private sector. Now Colom has admitted the law is an anachronism. "People own their land and it's up to them what they plant on it," he said.
The law is expected to be over turned today by legislators loyal to Colom.
President Alvaro Colom has stirred controversy in Guatemala by invoking a 1974 law that obliges people with large landholdings to use at least 10 percent of them for the cultivation of basic grains.
Sugarcane growers, exporters, business leaders and economic analysts have all said the measure is wrongheaded. But Colom maintained that, though the law had never been invoked for years, "it remains the law of the land and must be obeyed."