A Government programme to create a temporary stockpile of one million tonnes of rice from the winter-spring crop has ensured that many farmers in the Cuu Long (Mekong) River Delta earned profits, a meeting heard yesterday in Long An Province. To prevent prices from falling during the peak rice harvest season, the Government tasked food […]
Nhan Dan Online – The Mekong Delta has recently shipped around 42,000 tonnes of rice abroad, lifting Vietnam’s total shipments, as of June 15, to 2.5 million tonnes in volume and US$1 billion in value, equaling the same period in 2013. These figures were reported by the Southwest Stering Committee (SSC), which went on to […]
The Vietnam Northern Food Corporation (Vinafood 1) recently won a contract to provide 30,000 tonnes of jasmine rice for Iraq worth US$668 per tonnes (C&F). The US and Uruguay also won bids to ship 30,000 and 60,000 tonnes of rice to Iraq respectively at the price of US$717 a tonne (C&F). Vinafood1 recently paid a […]
VietNamNet Bridge – A Government programme to create a temporary stockpile of one million tonnes of rice from the winter-spring crop has ensured that many farmers in the Cuu Long (Mekong) River Delta earned profits, a meeting heard yesterday (June 11) in Long An Province. To prevent prices from falling during the peak rice […]
VietNamNet Bridge – Most Vietnamese exports to China, either through official channels or across the border, have been meeting obstacles, except for rice. Experts question why this is happening. Advisor to the Vietnam Food Association (VFA) Truong Thanh Phong said Chinese merchants have been stepping up rice imports from Vietnam recently. This has led to […]
The summer autumn rice crop’s productivity in the Mekong Delta provinces has increased thanks to fine weather, which has reduced insects & diseases, helped famers to save costs, according to the Mekong Delta Rice Research Institute on June 8. The Mekong Delta has about 1.7 million hectares of summer autumn rice expected to yield 7-8 million […]
The 34th meeting of the ASEAN Food Security Reserve Board (AFSRB) convened in Vientiane, Laos, on June 5 with the participation of 36 delegates from the 10 member countries. At the function, the officials heard progress reports on a programme ensuring regional food security, and the implementation of the ASEAN Plus Three Emergency Rice Reserve […]
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 […]
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 […]
