One of the world’s top rice producers, Vietnam said it planned to export 5.5 million tones of rice this year.
According to country’s Agriculture and Rural Development ministry, rice exporters have signed contracts to export 2.38 million tones of rice including contracts to export over one million tones of rice to Philippines so far.
The Ministry recently [...]
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Vietnam rice exports to hit 5.5m tonnes this year
Rice Traders Increase Proces as Philippines Buys from Vietnam
Rice traders offering to supply the Philippines, the world’s biggest buyer, raised prices by more than $100 a metric ton compared with last month, reflecting increased global demand.
Suppliers including Vietnam Southern Food Corp. offered to sell at $598 to $697 a ton at a tender today for a total of 600,000 tons, National Food Authority [...]
Rice Export Price up day by day
Vietnam Food Association (VFA) has recently announced that up to November 20, 2009, the country’s rice export has reached 6.45 million tonnes, in which over 5.573 million tonnes of rice have been delivered, gaining $2.256 billion in line with the FOB price.
Especially, within the first 20 days of November, the enterprises have exported only [...]
Vietnam rice exports may top record by 20pct this year
Rice exports from Vietnam, the world’s second-biggest shipper, may exceed the previous record by 20 percent this year, even as the total value of exports is forecast to drop.
Shipments are expected to be 6 million to 6.2 million metric tonnes, minister of Industry and Trade Vu Huy Hoang told the National Assembly in Hanoi today. [...]
Vietnam to export rice to India
Vietnam will likely reach another government-to-government rice export contract as the Indian government has announced to buy two million tons of rice from Vietnam and Thailand.
Though foreign newspapers reported that India needed two million tons of rice, the Indian Agency of Foreign Affairs has asked the Vietnam Food Association (VFA) to export up to three [...]
More Vietnamese Rice Export contracts signed, targets fulfilled
Vietnamese enterprises have so far this year signed enough contracts to export the entire volume of rice permitted by the Government for the whole year, said Mr. Nguyễn Thọ Trí, Vice Chairman of the Vietnam Food Association (VFA).
He said that since early October, two new contracts were signed under which Việt Nam will deliver [...]
