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 […]
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 […]
Farm hands, wearing conical hats, harvest rice grain at a farm in Can Tho Province, Vietnam. Photo: Bloomberg Rice farmer Nguyen Hien Thien is so busy growing his crops that he has never even visited Can Tho, a town only a few kilometres from his farm in the southern Mekong Delta. “When I was a […]
Workers load rice for export at the HCM City Food Company. Viet Nam’s rice export turnover to markets in Africa, West Asia and South Asia HA NOI (VNS) — Viet Nam’s rice export to Africa is likely to rebound significantly this year, based on the rapid growth seen in the first quarter, according to the […]
