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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
