Vietnam Agricultural Products

  Vietnam properly grasp the demand for rice in the world According to the latest updated forecast information in July of the US Department of Agriculture, the world's rice production in 2020 is estimated at 495.2 million tons, down about 0.3% compared to 2019. World rice consumption in 2020 is estimated at 490.4 million tons, an increase of about 1.3% compared to 2019.   According to the Ministry of Industry and Trade, with the advantages of the market, especially the high world rice demand since the outbreak of COVID-19, Vietnamese rice enterprises are having the opportunity to increase output and export prices of rice. In fact, Vietnam has seized the opportunity when the demand for rice increases, when in two consecutive crops of Winter-Spring 2019-2020 and Summer-Autumn 2020, Vietnam's rice output increased. At the right moment, the price of rice for export in the world continues to rise because of the purchasing demand of many countries for reserve and disease preve...

Impressive statistics on Vietnam's rice exports In the latest report of the US Department of Agriculture - Foreign Agricultural Services (USDA-FAS), the Philippines will overtake China as the world's largest rice importer in 2019. the Philippines is expected to import three million tons of white rice in 2019, accounting for 7% of total global rice imports. Meanwhile, large markets like China only imported only 2.5 million tons, lower than the forecast of 3.15 million tons announced earlier. This decline is believed to be due to the domestic supply meeting the demand of the market. However, it is also forecast that the Philippines will reduce white rice imports in 2020 in the context that the country has made certain progress in domestic production. Specifically, in 2020, the Philippines is forecast to import about 2.5 million tons of rice.   With the trend of increasing white rice imports, the nation's rice reserves increased by 14% in September 2019. According to the...

THE NUTRIENTS CONTAINED IN RICE Long grain white rice is a popular food consumed in most of the world. Long grain white rice as well as other Vietnamese rice has a lot of minerals and nutrient content Nutritional composition of white rice: The nutritional content of rice is calculated according to 1 cup of white rice with 196 grams and the caloric value of 2000 calorie diet for 1 day and night. - Energy: One cup of rice provides about 216 calories, of which 185 calories from sugar, 14.7 calories from fat, and 17.2 calories from protein. This amount of energy meets about 11% of the energy needs (according to a 2000 calorie / day diet). - Hydrates: The total number of carbohydrates in the cup of Vietnamese white rice is about 44.8 grams. In which digestible fiber accounts for 14%, the rest is sugar. - The protein: The amount of protein is about 5 grams, meeting 10% of the daily needs of the Vietnamese people. - Fat: The fat content in that amount ...

  Every year, when the flood season comes back (around the seventh lunar month) is also the time when the sky rice plants rise strongly. Where the water rises, the rice grows that high. The five or seven meter tall rice plant is commonplace. By September the rice blooms, a few weeks later it starts to ripen. But only 1 to 2 seeds are ripe per day, it takes about 2 weeks for the rice to fully ripen. When ripe, the rice flowers are vertical, not curved like other types of rice. The rice is only ripe at night, so it is only harvested at dawn because when the sun gets high, the rice seeds will fall off and then sink into the water or drift, spread everywhere. Sky rice rises in the middle of a vast field of water, so when harvested, it is only possible to use a canoe with a platform in the middle and two bamboo poles on either side. The pole works to beat the rice flowers into the plate to let the ripe seeds fall. Going against the canoe from the time the chicken crows to the sunrise is...

  Speaking of Vietnamese cuisine, we must mention pho, vermicelli, noodle soup, banh can, banh beo, banh xeo, broken rice, ... These are dishes made from rice that have long been associated with Vietnamese people. For many generations now, the dishes of rice fiber, or rice cakes, and rice have occupied an important part in Vietnamese culinary culture. Our country is divided into three regions: North - Central - South, with 54 ethnic groups, so rice dishes are also varied according to the culture of each ethnic group, making delicious rice dishes. Song Hau Clean Rice will introduce to you some dishes from Vietnamese non-glutinous rice as follows: Only from the basic ingredient of rice, the old grandparents created many kinds of rice fibers with different shapes, sizes and flavors with unmistakable characteristics. Each type of rice fiber is combined with local people with different ingredients, broths and spices, creating interesting variations of this food.   PHO Fir...