Vietnam has managed to improve rice quality (Photo: SGGP) After 30 years of renovation, Vietnam has obtained great achievements to become one among two top rice exporters in the world. However, rice productivity has reached its peak while the world supply has been increasing forcing the country to find new development direction for this industry. […]
Rice bags are loaded onto a ship in the southern province of Dong Thap (Photo: VNA) Vietnam exported over 3.8 million tonnes of rice, raking in US$1.6 billion in the period from January 1 to August 31, showing considerable drops in both volume and value over the same period last year. In the same period […]
VietNamNet Bridge – To enhance the competitiveness of Vietnam’s rice production and value, and bring more profits to farmers, Vietnam needs new breakthrough policies. Since the late 1980s, Vietnam’s rice industry has developed strongly. This helped Vietnam not only ensure food security in the country but also become one of the top three rice exporters […]
Farmers sell rice to traders right after harvest in the field in the Mekong Delta (Photo: SGGP) Vietnam’s rice export is forecast to get this year target of over six million tons, according to chairman of the Vietnam Food Association Huynh The Nang. Export is likely to recover in the rest of 2015 and next year […]
VietNamNet Bridge – The bulk rice exports to the Philippines under the government-to-government market have not helped raise rice prices. The rice price in the Mekong River Delta did not move up in the last week despite the news about Vietnam’s attending the bid to provide 750,000 tons of rice to the Philippines later this […]
The Vietnam Food Association (VFA) has dismissed as groundless rumors that Vietnamese enterprises have suspended export of 25% broken rice due to an undersupply of this product on the domestic market. Huynh The Nang, chairman of VFA and general director of Vietnam Southern Food Corp (Vinafood 2), snubbed the rumors, confirming that local rice enterprises […]
(VOV) – Rice exports to Russia saw a sudden increase in the 10 months leading up to November, up 2.02 times in volume and nearly 80% in value, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD). The MARD also reported that in November alone, the country shipped 885,000 tonnes of rice to get […]
Rice sacks are loaded onto a truck at a food processing company in Ho Chi Minh City. (Photo for illustration) Vietnam’s rice exports are likely to reach 6.8 million tonnes in 2015, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development’s Centre for Informatics and Statistics. The figure was revised from the centre’s previous 6.02 […]
The ambassador told the press that Indonesia has the highest consumption rate in the world for rice. Some 250 million people in Indonesia eat rice HA NOI (VNS) — Indonesia plans to import one million tonnes of rice from Viet Nam to meet the country’s high demand, according to Indonesian Ambassador to Viet Nam Mayerfas. […]
A joint project between Vietnam and Cuba on rice production has established 54,000 rice cultivation models with an average yield of 4.36 tonnes of rice per hectare, it was reported at a conference in Havana on December 11. With assistance from the project, Cuba’s Cuban Institute of Grain Research has been able to supply 20 […]
