CAN THO – Vietnam Southern Food Corporation (Vinafood 2) will be growing fragrant rice for export on large-scale fields in a bid to cope with fiercer competition from other rice exporting countries. Vinafood 2 general director Huynh The Nang told the Daily that the corporation will start its large-scale field project to produce fragrant rice and […]
The Mekong Delta’s rice output has increased six times during the 1976-2014 period, according to the Mekong Delta Rice Research Institute. According to Le Van Banh, Head of the Institute, the whole region produced 25 million tonnes of unhusked rice in 2014 while the figure recorded in 1976, when the institute was established, was just […]
Cambodia exported 387,061 tonnes of rice in 2014, increasing by 2 percent compared to the amount recorded in 2013, said the One Window Service for Rice Export Formality (SOW-REF). According to Kim Savuth, Vice President of the Cambodia Rice Exporters Association (CREA), the slight growth stemmed from the tough competition with other exporters, especially Vietnam […]
(VOV) – Although Vietnam was the second-largest rice exporter in the world for 2014, it is in urgent need of investment to develop a national brand to increase the value of its rice harvests. In recent years, the Mekong River Delta region has spared no effort to attract investment in the field of rice production. […]
Member enterprises of the Vietnam Food Association (VFA) have already clinched export contracts for at least one million tons of rice with delivery scheduled for this year. Most of the volume will be delivered to customers this year based on the contracts that VFA’s member enterprises signed with importers last year. The volume is 200,000 […]
Viet Nam will focus on Africa, West and South Asian markets to boost rice exports amidst harsh competition anticipated this year, according to the Ministry of Industry and Trade. Those markets saw rising demands for rice, the ministry’s Department of Africa, Western and Southern Asia Markets said. The department cited statistics from the Food and […]
The Vietnam Food Association (VFA) has promised that it will buy all commodity rice from farmers this year regardless of gloomy export prospects. According to VFA Chairman Nguyen Hung Linh, Vietnam ’s rice export will face more difficulties this year as China , the largest importer of Vietnamese rice that accounts for 30 percent of […]
Thailand has resumed its position as the world’s No. 1 rice exporter in 2014 with an export volume of over 10 million tonnes. It was followed by India, with 7.5 million tonnes and Vietnam, with 6.2 million tonnes. Thailand’s achievement was attributed to price adjustment to a level that is equal to those of its […]
Rice exporters are expected to ship 900,000 tonnes of the grain abroad in the first quarter of this year. Under plans drawn up for 2015 by the Vietnam Food Association (VFA), rice exports for the whole year will reach 7 million tonnes. Nguyen Hung Linh, VFA Chairman, said local exporters have not signed many contracts […]
The Vietnam Food Association (VFA) has scaled back its forecast for rice exports in 2015 on the back of a lacklustre 2014— as it continues to search for measures to jump start exports and power up the sector. For the year ended December 2014, Vietnam exported 6.316 million tonnes of rice, grossing US$2.789 billion in […]