New facility helps Riceland Foods, Riviana replace wheat-based ingredients for the gluten free market
Riceland Foods and Riviana Foods Inc. announced a multi-million dollar investment to build a rice extrusion facility in Jonesboro, Ark., to produce and market high value rice extruded products for domestic and international markets through their Rivland partnership.
“This investment is another effort to move our family-farmer’s rice higher up the value-added food chain. Extruded food products can be found in many segments of today’s nutrition marketplace and this project puts our rice in this high value market,” says Danny Kennedy, president and CEO of Riceland Foods.