Vietnam Agricultural Products

PHILIPPINES – THE LARGEST RICE IMPORT COUNTRY 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 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 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 rice imports, the nation's rice reserves increased by 14% in September 2019. According to the latest data from so...

  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 am...

  Vietnam exported 890,000 tonnes of rice worth 420 million USD in the first two months of 2020, a year-on-year increase of 27 percent and 32.6 percent and in terms of volume and value, respectively, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development. Vietnam exported 890,000 tonnes of rice worth 420 million USD in the first two months of 2020, a year-on-year increase of 27 percent and 32.6 percent and in terms of volume and value, respectively, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development. Increasing rice demand in many markets has increased Vietnamese rice exports from early this year, leading to a surge of rice prices in the domestic market, said Deputy Director of the MARD’s Department of Plant Cultivation Le Thanh Tung. During the first two months, the price of rice purchased at enterprises’ warehouses was 5,400-6,400 VND per kilo, 1,000 VND more than rice purchased at fields. In the first two months this year, the price of 5 percent broken rice f...