Le Viêt Nam, aujourd'hui

Thailand, the world's top rice exporter, wants to revive cooperation in the rice sector with Vietnam, currently the second-biggest exporter, in a bid to stabilise prices, the Thai commerce minister said on Thursday.

the world’s second-largest rice exporter and second-biggest producer of robusta coffee, aims to maintain its current export volumes of both commodities during the next decade, the country’s minister of agriculture and rural development said.

Vietnam's trade deficit widened in March from February as imports climbed.

MEKONG DELTA — He has worked this land for half of 64 years and is known among his fellow farmers in Kien Giang province here in the Mekong Delta as lao nong, or the old master of rice.

Charges of rice dumping against Vietnam’s Southern Region Food Corp., popularly known as Vinafood 2, to its subsidiary in Singapore, Saigon Food Co., has prompted Filipino economists to examine closely the price movements of Vietnam rice, particularly the 25 percent brokens that is exported to the Philippines.

Vietnam participated in the bidding session for purchasing 600,000 tonnes of rice opened in the Philippines on December 1 and won three bidding packages with total rice export of 300,000 tonnes of 25 percent broken rice at high price.

At the press meeting of Vietnam Food Association (VFA) yesterday in HCM City, Nguyen Tho Tri vice chair of VFA spoke that after Philippines opened the bid for importing 250,000 tonnes of 25 percent broken rice, the world's rice prices established a new band.

Till August 27, Vietnam signed to export 5.632 million tonnes of rice, up 66.58 percent year-on-year but the export value only reached $1.834 billion, down 3.64 percent, reported Vietnam Food Association (VFA).

Bangkok - Vietnam will see a 3.9 per cent growth in gross domestic product for the first half of this year, helped by a rise in rice exports, Hanoi said yesterday.

Vietnam exported about 700,000 tonnes of rice in April, a record since the country started exporting rice 20 years ago, thanks to an abundant winter-spring crop, the Vietnam Food Association (VFA) said Monday.

Vietnam moved to quell panic over rice supplies on Monday, banning speculation in the market after a "chaotic" buying binge at the weekend highlighted growing global fears about food security.

Vietnam's top rice exporters have sought government approval to build a bonded warehouse for rice in the Philippines, a state-run newspaper said yesterday, in a move to raise exports and expand trade ties between the nations.

Thailand, the world's biggest rice exporter, will revive talks with Vietnam, ranked second, on forming a rice cartel similar to the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) as prices and exports plunge.

Vietnam may increase rice exports in 2009 by 6.4% as good weather aids the nation's largest harvest of the year and adequate local stockpiles enable increased shipments, the government said.

Vietnam's Ministry of Industry and Trade in conjunction with the Organisation International de la Francophonie (OIF) held a conference in HCM City on November 25 to seek measures to boost Vietnam's rice export, attended by the African delegates.