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Another Vietnamese rice brand enters Japanese market

VOV.VN – Tan Long Group Joint Stock Company (Tan Long Group), in collaboration with Japan’s Kiraboshi Bank, hosted a ceremony in Tokyo on October 9 to launch the A An rice, the second Vietnamese rice brand in the Japanese market. With active support from Japan’s Kiraboshi Bank and the Vietnam Trade Office in Japan, Tan […]

Honoring IRRI’s Contributions To Vietnam’s Rice Industry

08 October 2024, VN: For over 60 years, IRRI has played a pivotal role as an international organization with a network of 17 offices worldwide and over 1,000 members. Since the early days of its cooperation with Vietnam, IRRI has supported farmers by introducing scientific and technological advancements, contributing to Vietnam’s emergence as one of […]

Soc Trang expands pilot of million hectare low-emission rice project

Hanoi (VNA) – The Mekong Delta province of Soc Trang plans to expand the rice cultivation model in the 2024 Summer-Autumn crop targeting one million hectares of high-quality and low-emission rice by 2030. The green growth rice is to be piloted in Long Phu, to other local districts, towns, and cities. After the first crop, […]

Shifting cultivation trends fuel Vietnam’s record high rice imports

Despite being the world’s third-largest rice exporter, Vietnam has spent nearly US$1 billion on rice imports in the first nine months of 2024. The increase in rice imports is driven by a shift in rice cultivation trends. According to the General Department of Customs, Việt Nam’s rice import turnover reached US$117 million in September, marking […]

9-month rice imports hit all-time high

By Thi Ha Vietnam, the third largest rice exporter after Thailand and India, saw its rice imports skyrocket by 57%, hitting nearly $1 billion in the first nine months of this year, establishing a new record. Industry insiders say that as farmers focus on cultivating higher-value rice varieties for export, local companies have ramped up […]

Marcos sees lower rice prices

By Kristina Maralit PRESIDENT Ferdinand Marcos Jr. expressed optimism on Tuesday that the cost of rice would stabilize consistent with current prices in Southeast Asia. “So, I think as the time goes on, that should improve,” the President said during a sectoral meeting on managing food and non-food inflation in Malacañang, noting rice prices seem […]

Vietnam Farmers To Receive $40M In Carbon Credit Payments Through Low-Emission Rice Project

byTheodora Stankova Farmers in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta are set to receive nearly $40 million (1,000 billion VND) in carbon credit payments through the country’s 1-million-hectare low-emission rice initiative, Vietnamnet reported on Tuesday. The project, named “One Million Hectares High Quality and Low-Carbon Rice in the MekongDelta” (or 1M Ha Project) and backed by the Transformative […]