CROWLEY, La. (KLFY) — Louisiana is a top U.S. rice producer and exporter, with over 60% of its roughly 400,000-acre annual crop shipped internationally, valued at approximately $360 million.
One of those producers, Supreme Rice in Crowley, is the state’s largest rice milling operation. Supreme processes over 1 billion pounds of rice annually, and ships worldwide to more than 50 countries.
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Daniel Nugier, Supreme Rice VP of Operations, said there is a need for their product in other countries, notably one of the poorest nations in the Western Hemisphere.
“We really honed in on a big market, which is probably the largest US milled rice market for all the United States: Haiti,” Nugier said. “And so probably almost half of our production goes to Haiti right now. And then the other half, for the most part, is domestic.”…