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Rice prices today (December 24): Broadly stable

VHO – Rice prices on December 24, 2025 remained stable in the Mekong Delta as end-of-season supply tightened, trading slowed, and the market awaited early-year export signals. On December 24, 2025, the domestic rice market continued to record a stable situation, with little fluctuation compared to previous sessions. In the [...]

Effectiveness of the socialized model linking rice production and consumption

EFFECTIVENESS OF THE SOCIALIZED MODEL LINKING RICE PRODUCTION AND CONSUMPTION Not only has it helped farmers in Xóm Thủ Hamlet (Long Bình Commune, Đồng Tháp Province) significantly increase their income in the 2025 autumn–winter crop, the ST25 rice production–consumption linkage model has also contributed to creating a “green revolution” in [...]

Rice Prices Today, December 19: Flat Market, Quiet Trading

Rice prices in the Mekong Delta on December 19 remained stable. While fresh paddy prices leveled off due to limited supply, the export price of 5% broken rice held steady at USD 420–440 per ton. The rice market in the Mekong Delta on December 19 recorded a broadly flat trend. [...]

Rice Exports: Leveraging FTAs and Enhancing Brand Value to Overcome Challenges

Effectively leveraging free trade agreements (FTAs), improving product quality, and building strong brands will be the key for Vietnamese rice to affirm its position in the global market. Amid volatility in the international market, Vietnam’s rice export sector is facing numerous challenges in terms of both volume and prices. At [...]

Vietnamese rice faces difficulties in China: Self-reflection comes first!

Instead of remaining comfortable with its role as an easy-going rice importer, China is cutting back on rice imports and is not hiding its ambition to become an exporter. Vietnamese rice has been going through difficult months. Data from the General Department of Vietnam Customs show that Vietnam’s rice exports [...]

Rice Exports – Seeking New Markets

In the first half of 2019, China, Indonesia, and Bangladesh—three major rice import markets—all reduced their import volumes. Many experts worried that this situation could continue until the end of the year, causing rice exports from the world’s three leading exporters—India, Thailand, and Vietnam—to remain sluggish. However, thanks to the [...]

South Korea Provides Vietnam with USD 4.5 Million to Improve the Rice Value Chain in the Red River Delta

Recently, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and the Korea Rural Community Corporation (KRC) signed a cooperation agreement for the project “Improving the Rice Value Chain in the Red River Delta, Vietnam.” Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Lê Quốc Doanh delivers a speech at the event. Accordingly, the [...]

Vietnam to Apply Remote Sensing Technology in Rice Production

With this technology, agencies in the agricultural sector can access accurate, objective, and timely data, thereby improving the efficiency of rice production and, in particular, strengthening natural disaster risk management. On the afternoon of July 17 in Hanoi, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) and the Swiss Agency [...]

Big Players in the Rice Industry Prepare to Sell Petroleum

Alongside its traditional business of wholesale rice trading, the Southern Food Corporation (Vinafood 2) plans to add petroleum trading to its business lines… The proposal submitted to the 2019 Annual General Meeting of Shareholders, expected to be held in late July, reveals that Vinafood 2 intends to add four new [...]

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