Uruguay produces rice that has attained high yields and a premium position in the international market. The country’s rice tourism, the Rice Route, goes through the regions of Lascano and Cebollatí.
It allows visitors not only to see how the famous Uruguayan rice is produced but also to enjoy beautiful landscapes and wildlife.
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Uruguayan rice: the secrets of a success story
Uruguay is a small country in the Southern Cone of South America, located in a corner between the Río de la Plata and the Atlantic Ocean. Rolling hills, excellent natural grasslands, and a temperate climate have made the country a perfect place for beef, wool, and dairy production, while typical temperate agriculture has been a tradition since the early period of Spanish colonization. The country’s traditional products are wheat, barley, sunflower, and maize, with soybean dominating the scene these days.
A date with big data in Uruguay
The big data approach helps optimize rice production and seeks to improve decision-making in agriculture by analyzing large amounts of information from farmers’ fields.
Uruguay: A small country, big in rice
This small, temperate country on the east coast of South America’s “southern cone” is now firmly on the rice radar. From relative obscurity half a century ago, it now has the third-highest rice productivity in the world—an average of 8 tons per hectare of dry paddy rice in the last 5 years—thanks to a unique system that, in recent years, has triggered 25% gains in productivity.
