Illustrative image (Photo: internet) Hanoi (VNA) – Sixteen cooperatives in Hanoi’s eight districts have producedJaponica rice on a total area of 800 hectares during the 2019 summer-autumncrop in service of export, heard a conference in Hanoi on May 29.
Thecooperatives are operating fruitfully, especially in high-quality agriculturalproduction, and able to develop production-consumption chains.
Eachproduction area of Japonica rice spans at least 30ha and would be expanded inthe time ahead. Besides, they have irrigation systems favourable for mechanisation.
Accordingto the Hanoi Agricultural Development Centre, the city has stepped up high-qualityrice production in tandem with export.
Japonica, a high-quality round grain variety,has been cultivated for many crops in Hanoi.
In 2018, Vietnam’s total rice exports reached6.15 million tonnes, with export turnover of 3.15 billion USD. The industry sawa 5.7 percent increase in volume and a 19.6 percent increase in value comparedto 2017.
The country’s rice exports in the first fourmonths of this year were estimated at 2.03 million tonnes, worth 866million USD, down by 7.9 percent in volume and 21.7 percent in value over thesame period last year.-VNA
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