Illustrative image (Source: VNA) An Giang (VNA) – The Mekong Delta province of An Giang shippedabroad 83,920 tonnes of rice in the first three months of 2018 for 41.1 millionUSD, up 18,3 percent in volume and 28.8 percent in value over the same periodlast year.
According to Vo Nguyen Nam, Director of the Department of Industry andTrade, An Giang’s rice has been exported to 21 countries, mostly Asian oneswith 83.7 percent. A rise of 30.4 percent was seen in the African market.
In the first three months of this year, rice price was 487 USD per tonneaveragely, a rise of about 43 USD per tonne over the same time last year.
Nam said that global demand of rice is forecast to continue rising. Thegood results in the locality’s rice exports in the first quarter of 2018 wasdue to high demand from traditional markets of Indonesia, the Philippines,Malaysia and a number of new markets like Bangladesh.
Meanwhile, Tran Anh Thu, Director of the Department of Agriculture andRural Development, said that farmers in An Giang have used high-quality ricevarieties in 72 percent of total rice farming area in this Winter-Spring crop,thus enhancing the quality of the province’s rice and contributing tofacilitate exports.
Thu revealed that An Giang is developing the An Giang rice trade mark to2020 with a vision to 2030, while preparing to issue a rice export market developmentstrategy in the 2017-2020 period, aiming to improve the competitiveness of the grain.-VNA
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