HAVANA: Arkansas Governor, Republican Asa Hutchinson, will travel in September to the island, which will make him the first US governor to visit Cuba since the official establishment of diplomatic relations between Washington and Havana last July.
Arkansas is one of the leading exporter states of agricultural products on the island, mainly chicken, and seeks to increase the sale of rice.
“As Cuba expands its markets and tourist opportunities, something that will happen in the coming days, there will be greater demand for rice. Arkansas needs to be on the table and become number one in exports to Cuba,” Hutchinson said in a conference at a rice fair in Stuttgart, Arkansas.
