Feparroz highlights expansion of rice farming in Paraguay

(By UCP) Rice farming in the country has been expanding, because in addition to the areas characteristic of its cultivation, it has been possible to diversify the region, which today has the Chaco soil as its main protagonist. Yes, the western region, in addition to having arid lands, shows that with good practices and incorporation of technology this is possible. Proof of this is that in addition to livestock, agriculture also alternates with rice cultivation, which has been achieving encouraging results, as indicated by the vice president of the Paraguayan Federation of Rice Producers (Feparroz), Reinerio Franco. “El Chaco is expanding its production area and the potential is enormous, it is growing at a very important pace”, he said in contact with 650 AM. Although the reference clarified that the main rice cultivation areas are Misiones, Ñeembucú and Villeta. Industry statistics Franco explained that rice production involves highly mechanized crops that represent very large ...