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 […]
Deputy spokesman of the Thai National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO), Col. Nathawat Chancharoen has said that the Finance Ministry and the Bank for Agriculture and Agricultural Cooperatives will dole out 92 billion THB (2.88 billion USD) to pay farmers who mortgaged rice with the government but have not been paid. Nathawat made the statement after […]
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 […]
Vietnam shipped 536,570 tonnes of rice worth US$ 236 million abroad during the first quarter of this year, marking the lowest Q1 figures since 2009. Vietnam shipped 536,570 tonnes of rice worth US$ 236 million abroad during the first quarter of this year, marking the lowest Q1 figures since 2009, announced Huynh The Nang, Deputy […]
The rice harvest in the south-central and Tay Nguyen (Central Highlands) regions is expected to be under 35,000 tonnes compared to the previous winter-spring crop because of prolonged drought, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has said. The ministry’s Plant Cultivation Department said that 1.63 million tonnes of rice would be harvested in the […]
VNA-Thousands of tonnes of rice is currently stocked up in trailers queued up at the border gates with China in the Lao Cai Province. The drivers are awaiting customs clearance from the Chinese side, which had slowed the imports of rice as of April 1. The online Nong nghiep Viet Nam (Vietnamese Agriculture) newspaper quoted […]
