{"id":9209,"date":"2023-10-17T12:09:42","date_gmt":"2023-10-17T12:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ricenewstoday.com\/dev\/?p=9209"},"modified":"2023-10-17T12:10:43","modified_gmt":"2023-10-17T12:10:43","slug":"usa-rice-leaders-meet-with-cuban-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ricenewstoday.com\/dev\/usa-rice-leaders-meet-with-cuban-president\/","title":{"rendered":"USA Rice leaders meet with Cuban president"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>USA Rice advocates for improvements in the U.S.-Cuba relationship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"850\" height=\"478\" src=\"https:\/\/ricenewstoday.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image-97.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ricenewstoday.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image-97.png 850w, https:\/\/ricenewstoday.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image-97-600x337.png 600w, https:\/\/ricenewstoday.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image-97-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/ricenewstoday.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image-97-768x432.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Leaders in the U.S. rice industry hope to see greater growth in Cuban private industry and more opportunity and freedoms for its people.BRENT MURPHREE<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The USA Rice Federation continues to take steps to try to restore Cuba to its position as the largest importer of U.S.-grown rice before the United States imposed an embargo on all U.S. exports to the island in 1962.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Members of the USA Rice staff and Mark Isbell, a producer who farms in Humnoke, Ark., participated in a roundtable discussion with Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel at Cuba\u2019s Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York on Sept. 22.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They were among a group of private sector representatives from the agriculture, banking, hospitality, shipping and logistics industries attending the meeting. Cuba\u2019s deputy foreign minister and its representatives to the UN and its U.S. Embassy also participated in the event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Participants shared frustration over the lack of the Biden administration\u2019s and Congress\u2019 engagement with Cuba, according to a report in the USA&nbsp;<em>Rice Daily<\/em>. They also encouraged the Cuban president to continue efforts to improve investment by the Cuban private sector.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis meeting was a unique opportunity to get in front of a foreign leader where there is so much potential for new business and growth on both sides of the equation,\u201d said Isbell, who played host to staff members from the Cuban Embassy in Washington at his family\u2019s farm in September 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe are encouraged by recent commercial shipments of U.S. rice to Cuba, but a lot of work is still needed to move the needle in Congress, and this Administration will also need to engage more seriously with Cuba for there to be substantive improvements.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">UN talks<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In a speech to the United Nations General Assembly earlier in the week, President D\u00edaz-Canel called for more equality for developing nations while also criticizing the U.S. trade embargo on Cuba, which is now the longest running blockade in history. The embargo was first placed on arms shipments to Cuba in 1958 and later extended to almost all types of shipments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The release last year of previously declassified documents show the initial concept of the expansion of the U.S. blockade in 1962 was to create \u201chardship and disenchantment\u201d among the Cuban people so they would overthrow Cuban President Fidel Castro. Castro remained in power until he turned the office of the presidency over to his brother, Raul Castro, in 2008. Diaz-Canel was elected president in 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhile I and many others in our industry hope to see greater growth in Cuban private industry and more opportunity and freedoms for its people, I believe more trade is the best way to bring about those ends,\u201d said Isbell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>USA Rice officials help lead the U.S. Agriculture Coalition for Cuba and continues to advocate improvements in the U.S.-Cuba relationship with a focus on permitting U.S. companies to finance sales to better compete with agricultural goods from foreign nations, the USA Rice Daily said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/sharing\/share-offsite\/?url=https:\/\/www.farmprogress.com\/rice\/usa-rice-leaders-meet-with-cuban-president\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>USA Rice advocates for improvements in the U.S.-Cuba relationship. 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