Rice shipments from Uruguay will arrive in Ecuador in September

(By El Universo) The importation of rice by Ecuador will finally happen and will come from Uruguay. By the end of this week and the beginning of next week, the first shipment of Uruguayan rice to Ecuador should take place, which would come by sea. The first quota approved is for up to 15,000 tons of white rice, according to the president of the Rice Industrial Corporation of Ecuador (Corpcom), Juan Pablo Zúñiga. The purchase of cereal on the international market took place after, in mid-June, the Minister of Agriculture, Eduardo Izaguirre, announced that the measure was taken to guarantee the country's food sovereignty, but was criticized by farmers, who indicated that they have sufficient production. to provide. In addition to Uruguay, Colombia, Argentina and Brazil are also among the supplier options; however, the northern neighbor was discarded, while the latter remain as alternatives, and to these are added Paraguay and the United States, according to Zúñiga. Last July, ...