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Central American rice farmers agreed at a meeting in El Salvador to step up production so as to reduce the region's needs for imports of the grain.

Tuesday, July 1, 2008

Members of Fecarroz, the regional rice farmers' organization, agreed that international prices are likely to remain high. The only solution, they said, was to improve productivity and import less.
Nicaragua was chosen to coordinate research and development of the crop.

Source: elnuevodiario.com.ni

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