Rt Vol. 11, No. 3 Uruguay: A Small Country, Big In Rice

URUGUAY: A small country, big in rice Photos and story by Neil Palmer f you were asked to name some of the outstanding rice producers of the world, you might say China, India, or the United States. You’d be forgiven for not thinking of Uruguay. But, this small, temperate country on the east coast of South America’s “southern cone” is now firmly on the rice radar. From relative obscurity half a century ago, it now has the third-highest rice productivity in the world—an average of 8 tons per hect

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