Vietnam - Rice

[Sally Furniss]

Re: Vietnam - Rice

Philippines calls halt to rice purchases through end-2010
16:22, Friday, 06/08/2010 (GMT+7)


Since 1995, the Philippines has been Vietnam?s top rice customer. Until 2005, the rice export contracts were government-to-government deals. From 2005 on, though export contracts were ostensibly privatized, it has always been the state-owned Southern Food Corporation (Vinafood 2) that wins the bid and allocates ?quotas? to subsidiaries. Vinafood 2 annually has exported nearly two million tons rice to the Philippines, meeting 2/3 of that country?s import requirement.

The new Benigno Aquino administration in Manila says it will encourage increased local food production and change rice import policies, aiming for self-sufficiency in rice by 2013.

Tran Duc Tung, formerly an expert at the Ministry of Agriculture?s Planning Department, comments that the sale of rice in big quantities and at high prices to the Philippines has brought big benefits to Vietnam over the last many years. However, Tung says, there has been a downside. Because enterprises have relied on one big market, they have become complacent. They have lost dynamism, the most important thing in doing business.

http://english.vietnamnet.vn/report...alt-to-rice-purchases-through-end2010-927264/

 

[Sally Furniss]

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Last update 15:21, Monday, 09/08/2010 (GMT+7)
VietNamNet Bridge ? The Vietnam Food Association (VFA) late last week released important information: China has purchased up to 600,000 tons of summer-autumn crop rice from Vietnam, which may threaten national food security.

Nguyen Dinh Bich, a rice expert, explained that it?s nothing new when China purchases rice from Vietnam. Some Chinese provinces near Vietnam regularly lack rice because of bad weather. Instead of carrying rice from other areas of China, which costs time and money, they would rather buy from Vietnam.

According to VFA, an estimated 600,000 tons of rice have been exported to China, but there are no exact figures and official surveys warn about the impact on national food security.

http://english.vietnamnet.vn/biz/201008/How-much-rice-China-has-purchased-from-Vietnam-927803/

 

[Sally Furniss]

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Quang Ngai province harvested on 24,000 hectares of summer-autumn rice

(17/09/2010) (09/17/2010)
Summer production revenues in 2010 whole province of Quang Ngai sowing planted 32,256 hectares of rice, up to now has over 24,000 hectares harvested, average yield is estimated at 56.3 quintals per hectare, reaching 58% over the same period and exceeded 6% compared to a summer collection 2009. Expected to be finished harvesting 20/9/2010. In the production of sunshine encountered adverse weather in the first-term service, some tea rice area in the valley early in the last case was entered correctly.
http://translate.googleusercontent....le.com&usg=ALkJrhgSH3byvK8B7VoRtc-m9GslkYElyA

 

[Sally Furniss]

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Rice stockpiling in Vietnam 45 percent complete, industry group says
Last updated: 3/24/2011 17:00

Vietnam, the world?s second-largest rice exporter, has accumulated 45 percent of a targeted 1 million ton stockpile in a bid to prevent local prices from slumping at harvest time, the Vietnam Food Association said. ... http://www.thanhniennews.com/2010/Pages/20110324171242.aspx

 

[Sally Furniss]

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Mekong Delta to increase rice output

The department is targeting 24.5 million tons this year, an increase of nearly one million tons over the last year.

At the same conference held in Can Tho City, the Plant Protection Department said that the current summer-autumn crop was plagued by brown grasshoppers, yellow dwarf and blast diseases that have increased compared to last year.

http://www.saigon-gpdaily.com.vn/National/2011/7/94643/