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Mekong farmers harvest summer rice crops

Farmers in the Mekong Delta are harvesting summer-autumn rice, earning an average profit of 10-15 VND (70-710 USD) per ha, according to the region’s departments of agricultural and rural development.
Farmers in the Mekong Delta are harvesting summer-autumn rice, earningan average profit of 10-15 VND (70-710 USD) per ha, according to theregion’s departments of agricultural and rural development.

In this summer-autumn rice crop, farmers have had a high yield of8-10 tonnes per ha. Traders are buying fresh paddy in fields at a priceof 4,100-4,600 VND per kilogram, the Sai Gon Giai phong (LiberatedSaigon) reported.

The Mekong Delta region, thenation’s largest granary, currently has a large-scale rice field area ofaround 100,000 hectares.

The rice field area in the MekongDelta will be expanded to 800,000 hectares by 2020, equal to 20 percentof the annual rice-producing area of the region and producing an outputof 4.5 million tonnes of brown rice, according to Vinafood 2.

The Mekong Delta accounts for 90 percent of the country’s export rice.-VNA
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