A potential new market: Texas' rice to Cuba
- Submitted by: manso
- United States
- Politics and Government
- 08 / 12 / 2010
EGYPT, Texas - Tributes to Fidel Castro, statues of Che Guevara and photographs of Elian Gonzalez might not line the streets of this rice-growing town, but make no mistake about it: The farmers here are pro-Cuba.
Texas rice farmers have been watching intently as Congress ponders a bill that would lift restrictions of a decades-old trade embargo and allow tourists to travel to Cuba. Passage of the bill also would open the communist island country's market to U.S. agriculture.
Farmers in and around Egypt, a tiny agricultural community near Houston, generally describe themselves as conservative (with a few exceptions), but they are more than willing to speak favorably about opening up trade to a communist country.
"Farmers are bottom line-oriented," said Thomas Wynn, an economist and rice farmer from Egypt.
By Tim Eaton Associated Press Copyright
Published: August 9, 2010
Source: www.tdtnews.com/
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