Up to 100,000 tonnes of Vietnamese rice will be shipped to the EU each year tax-free in 2018 following the Vietnam-EU Free Trade Agreement, helping local rice exporters penetrate the market.
Changes to management institutions are needed to improve the rice value chain and Vietnamese rice’s competitiveness, experts said at a workshop in Hanoi on March 17.
Improving the quality of rice products has become the most urgent task given consecutive reductions in rice exports in recent years, experts said at a conference in Ho Chi Minh City on November 11.
The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) has ordered Vietnam’s rice exporters to closely control the quality of rice exported to the US, after some exports were rejected.