Le Viêt Nam, aujourd'hui

Vietnam's rice exports this year jumped 4.36 percent from 2010 to a record high of 7.19 million tonnes, the Agriculture Ministry said on Monday, beating previous industry projections.

The government rice export management group foresees that next year rice exports will not be as high as this year but will still be good, ensuring that farmers profit by 30 percent or even more.

Vietnam agencies are investigating Japan's claim that it has found genetically modified organisms (GMO) in pho (rice noodles) exported by a local company, the news website of the Vietnam Farmers' Union reported on Thursday.

Vietnam may export 7.5 million tonnes of rice in 2011, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) has forecast after considering the high export volume of 6 million tonnes in the first nine months of the year.

Vietnam expects that its rice exports will grow to as much as 7 million tonnes next year, benefiting from Thailand's rice-pledging scheme.

Rice shipments from Vietnam, the world’s second-biggest exporter after Thailand, may exceed a target for the year as production increases and exporters target new markets, including neighbor China.

Vietnam, the world's second-largest rice exporter, plans to stockpile 1 million tonnes of rice to help sustain the market for farmers amid low prices, authorities said Friday.

HANOI - Vietnam vowed to maintain current rice crop areas and boost yields to ensure supplies remain adequate in the face of demand pressures from a fast-growing population as well as the effects of climate change.

Vietnam, the second-largest rice exporter, may lose about 5 percent of the farmland used for the crop by 2020 as malls and industrial parks spread, according to the government, which has drawn up a plan to halt the losses.

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.