VietNamNet Bridge – China, with its huge population of 1.4 billion, may lack food in the near future, which could give Vietnam an opportunity to gain superiority in rice trading with China. But recent tensions in the East Sea have raised concerns that Vietnamese rice sales are in danger. Vietnam’s agricultural production, which depends on […]
Phan Van Chinh, Director of the ministry’s Import-Export Department, said rice exporters have signed export contracts worth 4.3 million tonnes, an increase of 17 per cent as compared to the same period last year despite the difficulties in the market. By the end of May, rice exports reached 2.7 million tonnes while another 1.6 million […]
Rice exports to Thailand plummeted in the first four months of the year as a result of that country’s surplus, which reached record levels at the end of 2013. Between January and April, Cambodia exported just 1,550 tonnes of rice to Thailand, down 89 per cent from the 14,250 tonnes shipped in the same period […]
Vietnam shipped abroad nearly 300,000 tonnes of rice in the first three week of May, bringing its total rice export volume to over 2 million tonnes since the start of this year, according to the Vietnam Food Association (VFA). In May, Asia remains Vietnam’s largest rice importer, consuming 177,000 tonnes, making up 57.3% of the […]
HCMC – Local firms would be allowed to export rice to their clients at the prices on which the two sides agree, instead of the floor prices set by the Vietnam Food Association (VFA). The Government has told the ministries of industry-trade and agriculture-rural development to consider the impact of pilot removal of the floor […]
Construction trademark helps to locate Vietnam rice Construction of trademark can’t delay Presently, Vietnam Rice production, export has been having many difficulties. Firstly, the quality of Vietnam’s rice export has not been highly appreciated. Secondly, we have not built up rice trademark so export rice price is not stable. Ministry of Industry and Trade said market development, […]
Viet Nam has won a contract to supply 300,000 metric tonnes (MT) of rice to the Philippines this year. Deputy Chairman of the Viet Nam Food Association Pham Van Bay revealed this yesterday. In a phone interview with BusinessWorld, Administrator of the Philippines’s National Food Authority (NFA) Renan B Dalisay said that Viet Nam has […]
Rice sacks are loaded for export at the Hau Giang Food Joint Stock Company (Photo: VNA) The Mekong Delta province of Hau Giang saw a 5-10 percent rise in the price of rice thanks to national stockpile purchases in accordance with the Prime Minister’s decision, said Nguyen Van Tham, Deputy Director of the provincial Department […]
VietNamNet Bridge – The rice export market has bounced back thanks to higher demand from importers, especially from China, which has made large orders. Huynh The Nang, chair of the Vietnam Food Association (VFA), in an interview to the local press, said he can see “positive signs” in the rice export market. Vietnam needs to […]
The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has submitted a plan to the Government that seeks to develop a Vietnamese rice brand name by 2020. For long now Vietnam has been one of the top three rice exporting nations, but it lacks brand names that are known in the global market, the ministry has said […]
