Vita Rice Limited
Vita Rice Limited (“Vita Rice”) is a boutique rice producer, head quartered in Port Louis, Mauritius.
Vita Rice has been established to produce, process and market proprietary premium low glycemic index rice domestically and for export. Vita Rice has an internationally experienced management and senior farm management team.
Mauritius currently imports approximately 76,000 tonnes of rice per annum. Vita Rice plans to develop a 2,500 hectare rice farming operation, capable of producing 18,750 tonnes of rice per annum (approximately 25% of the domestic rice market) to reduce Mauritius’ dependence on imports and provide an effective counter to the growth of diabetes in Mauritius. The land supply is from the Mauritian Government through the Rose Belle Sugar Estate Board and through contract farming by its sister company, Green Island Rice Limited.
Vita Rice will utilise a proprietary rice seed variety which is high yielding and has a low glycemic index. This rice variety is much healthier than widely available rice and has undergone rigorous in-vivo testing at Sydney University yielding an ultra low GI level of 48.