Cuba buys 7,500 tonnes rice from Nand Persaud

White rice being loaded onto the vessel for shipment to Cuba (DPI photo)

Approximately 7,500 tonnes of white rice is being exported to Cuba.

On Monday,  the Department of Public Information (DPI) said that the rice was being loaded at the Muneshwer’s Wharf in Georgetown.

General Manager (ag) of the Guyana Rice Development Board (GRDB), Allison Peters said that it has been close to two decades since rice was exported to Cuba.

“This is the first shipment to Cuba since 1999 when the MARDS rice milling group sent about 400 tonnes of white rice to Cuba at a price of $345 US per tonne”, Peters said.