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Vietnam may export 6.5 million tonnes of rice in 2018. This year, the country continues increasing the proportion of high-quality rice in the total rice export volume.

The Vietnam Food Association (VFA) was urged to work with other units to continue shifting rice production towards higher output of high-quality rice.

Vietnam may export 6.5 million tonnes of rice in 2018, according to Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Ha Cong Tuan.

Farmers in the south have begun harvesting their winter-spring rice crop, earning large profits because of high yields and prices.

Vietnam shipped nearly 6 million tones of rice in 2017, up one million tones compared to the year before.

The Mekong Delta province of Kien Giang is striving to gross more than 42 million USD from exports in the fourth quarter of 2017, fulfilling its yearly target of 400 million USD.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has suggested the Mekong Delta province of Hau Giang develop smart agriculture and processing industry, and spread a new-style cooperative model.

Information related to investment attraction policies of Hau Giang province and opportunities for investors to pour capital into agriculture was introduced to a food firm from the RoK.

Thailand has sold an additional 1.66 million tonnes of rice worth 49 million USD from state stockpiles, reported the Ministry of Commerce.

Departments, agencies and sectors of the Mekong Delta city of Ca Tho have been urged to focus on the implementation of measures to enhance the quality of large-scale fields.

Reorganising production and producing high-quality rice with retraceable origins will increase Vietnamese rice’s value on the international market amid fierce competition from foreign products, experts have suggested.

The impressive growth of high-quality rice exports amidst the downward trend of rice export in 2016 proves that Vietnam’s rice export businesses should look to satisfy clients’ demands to protect Viet

The Mekong Delta province of Hau Giang plans to expand the cultivation area planted with certified rice to 60-70 percent of its total rice cultivation.

The 2016 Me Tri Young Rice Flake Culture Day was on October 2 at 1 Do Duc Duc Street, Nam Tu Liem District, Hanoi.

Vietnam will restructure its export rice products towards increasing the proportion of high-quality, high-value, organic, highly-nutritious rice and products made from rice.

The northern province of Phu Tho has earmarked more than 230 billion VND (10.3 million USD) for agricultural restructuring towards the sector’s sustainable development until 2020.

Vietnam Moc Bai JSC under the Republic of Korea’s Taekwang Group will splash out over 261 billion VND (11.6 million USD) on a high-tech agricultural project in the southeastern province of Tay Ninh.

The People’s Committee of the southernmost Ca Mau province targets to increase local integrated rice-prawn farming grown under VietGAP standards tenfold to 10,000 hectares by 2020.