January 13, 2010
LookAtVietnam – MOF is working on a policy to support rice farmers by allowing them to ensure a minimum profit of 30 percent. Statistics show that Mekong Delta provinces every year deliver between nine and ten million tonnes of merchandise rice. In general, farmers expect high profits from the winter-spring crops which provide high quality rice. [...]
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September 25, 2009
LookAtVietnam – Farmers in northern and northern central provinces, especially Nghe An, could get about VND4 million compensation for every hectare of rice destroyed The Southern Plant Protection Centre warned the diseases could break out in next year’s summer-autumn crop if brown hoppers kept threatening the winter-spring crop.The Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, [...]
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September 22, 2009
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung Tuesday asked the Southern Food Corporation to buy 500,000 tons of rice from farmers in order to keep prices stable and ensure farmers make profits. The nationâs top rice exporter, also known as Vinafood 2, has been asked to purchase the summer-autumn crop rice within two months. The rice will [...]
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September 13, 2009
Farmers waiting for dealers to buy their rice sacks in the Mekong Delta. Farmers in the Mekong Delta say a bumper harvest has brought no benefits as their rice is languishing in warehouses amid low demand and two weeks of nose-diving prices. Le Thanh Hien, a farmer in Hau Giang Province, said he had failed [...]
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July 29, 2009
A worker harvests tea leaves at a plantation in the Central Highlands. The Ministry of Industry and Trade has lowered its exports estimate for this year by nearly 5 percent to US$61 billion due to low commodity prices and falling global demand. It would be very difficult in the current situation to export $6 billion [...]
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July 6, 2009
VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam previously planned to export 4.5-5 million tonnes of rice this year. However, the volume of rice enterprises have registered to export so far this year exceeds five million tonnes. Farmers in the Mekong River Delta have finished harvesting the winter-spring crop and they are harvesting the early summer-autumn crop. The price [...]
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June 18, 2009
VietNamNet Bridge – The instruction by Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung to do away with rice export quotas released earlier this week has been welcomed by farmers. The rice price has already moved up. The main topic in the discussions of farmers in the Cuu Long River Delta these days is the instruction by Prime [...]
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June 9, 2009
Agriculture officials have warned farmers not to panic over the appearance of small brown plant hoppers in the northern province of Hung Yen, Hai Duong, Thai Binh and Bac Ninh. Brown plant hoppers have destroyed 730ha of paddy fields in Hoa Xuan Dong Commune, Dong Hoa District in the central province of Phu Yen. LookAtVietnam [...]
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June 3, 2009
Paddy prices have been dropping dramatically, but enterprises are not buying from farmers. Meanwhile, merchants have been trying to force prices down further. “We have been waiting for merchants to come to purchase our paddies for the past week, but no one has come,” said Hai Lo, a farmer in An Giang province. “We are relying [...]
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