The Rupununi’s Big Farm Already Exists.
Siting, ownership, and processing now decide everything. Santa Fe has settled whether farming can scale. In the North Rupununi, a single large, mechanized farm operates on an 11,700-hectare (29,000-acre) lease, has prepared 3,200 hectares (8,000 acres) for rice cultivation, exported more than 12,000 tons of paddy rice to Brazil, and has expanded into soy and…