Some 159,700 hectares were sown, with an average yield of 9,000 kilos per hectare totaling 1,4 million tons, making Uruguay the main exporter of quality rice in South America and the sixth worldwide. For the first time in many years Uruguayan rice farmers
Normally it is difficult to hear or read bad news about Uruguay. It is a country that has offered nothing but stability and peace in recent decades to its citizens and to many Latin Americans and Europeans who have chosen to live or