Selection of Rice for Great Cooking (Puglia) - Cities
Bari | (surroundings) |
Barletta-Andria-Trani | (surroundings) |
Brindisi | (surroundings) |
Foggia | (surroundings) |
Lecce | surroundings) |
Taranto | (surroundings)
"Rice cultivation is absent in Puglia: the region, despite having extensive plains such as the Tavoliere and the Messapian Plain, is characterised by an arid Mediterranean climate with scarce rainfall and limited water availability — conditions incompatible with the flooding and intensive irrigation requirements that rice growing demands."
