Agriculture Minister Dr. Leslie Ramsammy (centre) on Sunday witnessed the loading of harvested rice from the Santa Fe Mega Farm investment which was then transported to Brazil. The cargo rice was first processed at the Santa Fe mill which was constructed by the investors, a release from the Ministry of Agriculture said today.
This is the third time the Simpson family of Barbados is successfully harvesting rice which is being used to supply the local Region 9 market as well as Brazil. For 2014, more than 8000 tonnes of cargo rice was exported to Brazil.
