Paraguay grows 175,000 hectares (432,000 acres) of rice in Ñeembucú and five other departments and produces about 1.5 million metric tons of the grain. In 2023, ...

It’s said that lions and tigers stalk the semiarid scrubland of Paraguay’s Chaco region. Yet this is the heart of South America, oceans away from the natural habitat of either of those big cats.